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

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.

List of contents

Introduction: A Libertine Nobility
Chapter 1: Refinement and the Court Nobility
Chapter 2: A Libertine Nobility
Chapter 3: The Liberated Sodomite
Chapter 4: Institutionalizing Adultery
Chapter 5: Marie Antoinette, The Revolution, and The End of the Libertine Nobility
Conclusion

About the author

Chad Denton earned his PhD in history from the University of Missouri.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chad Denton, Denton Chad
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781498537261
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3726-1
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Enlightenment, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Libertinism, 18th Century, Early Modern Philosophy, French History, seventeenth century, 17th century, eighteenth century, French intellectual hitsory, Early modern sexuality, French nobility, French cultural history