Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Louise E. Robbins

In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande M nagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor--in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in eighteenth-century Paris. In the streets of the city, residents and visitors could observe performing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801867533
• ISBN13: 9780801867538
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"