Marie-Antoinette’s Legacy
The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867
Series: Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041182467
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems.
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Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems. Four French consorts—queen Marie-Antoinette and empresses Joséphine Bonaparte, Marie-Louise and Eugénie—constructed their gardens betwixt and between court ritual and personal agency, where they transgressed sociopolitical boundaries in order to perform gender and identity politics. Each patron endorsed embodied strolling, promoting an awareness of the sentient body in artfully contrived sensoria at the Petit Trianon and Malmaison, transforming these places into spaces of shared affectivity. The gardens became living legacies, where female agency, excluded from the garden history canon, created a forum for spatial politics. Beyond the garden gates, the spatial experience of the picturesque influenced the development of cultural fields dedicated to performances of subjectivity, including landscape design, cultural geography and the origination of landscape aesthetics in France.
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Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Introduction : Spatial Legacies, Prologue : Consorts & Fashionistas, I: A Gambling Queen: Marie-Antoinette's Gamescapes (1775-1789), II: Revolutionary Surprises (1789-1804), III: A Créole Empress: Joséphine at Malmaison (1799-1809), IV : The Imperial Picturesque: Napoléon, Joséphine and Marie-Louise (1810-14), V: Empress Eugénie and the Universal Exhibition of 1867, Epilogue, Index
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Marie-Antoinette’s Legacy: The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867
