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Perceptions and Reality in the 17th Century Thursday, November 15 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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