Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility: The Enlightened and Depraved

by Chad Denton

This study is an intellectual and cultural history of the French nobility in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It examines attitudes toward sexuality and gender and analyzes the origins of the stereotype of the French libertine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149853726X
• ISBN13: 9781498537261
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"