| Perceptions
and Reality in the 17th Century
Thursday, November 15
11:45 AM
Humanities 401
Three centuries, the 18th, 19th and much of the
20th, saw the 17th as the "Grand Siècle." High
praise spawned detractors but titillating disclosures attracted
wide attention only after post-revolutionary historians dwelled
on the faults of the Old Regime to affirm the superiority of bourgeois
institutions. Perspectives is the aim of the presentation.
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