{"id":201,"date":"2007-12-21T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2007\/12\/21\/re-opening-the-17th-century-reading-and-spectacle-in-the-french-court\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T14:10:21","slug":"re-opening-the-17th-century-reading-and-spectacle-in-the-french-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/re-opening-the-17th-century-reading-and-spectacle-in-the-french-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"getimage.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/project\/libnews\/archives\/getimage.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"148\" align=\"left\">A student project by Maha Atal &#8217;08 and Sara Damiano &#8217;08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C &#8220;Lire et voir le XVlle si\u00e8cle aujourd&#8217; hui.&#8221;<br \/>\nTo the contemporary mind, a reference to 17th century France calls up images of decadence, pleasure, and luxury, embodied in the grand architecture of Versailles. But how was this world interpreted and experienced by the men and women who lived in it? Bringing together original texts by 17th century literary giants from Moli\u00e8re to Racine, visual representations of Versailles, and insights from scholarly works, this exhibit exposes the personal and political dilemmas that governed ambitions in the back corridors of the Sun-King&#8217;s court.<br \/>\nDecember 17, 2007 &#8211; February 2008, John Hay Library<br \/>\nOpening hours: Mon-Fri 9 am &#8211; 6 pm and Sun 1-5 pm<br \/>\nFor more information contact <a href=\"mailto:Hay@brown.edu.\">Hay@brown.edu.<\/a><br \/>\nImage:Louis XIV and suite arriving at a ch\u00e2teau c. 1700<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student project by Maha Atal &#8217;08 and Sara Damiano &#8217;08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C &#8220;Lire et voir le XVlle si\u00e8cle aujourd&#8217; hui.&#8221; To the contemporary mind, a reference to 17th century France calls up images of decadence, pleasure, and luxury, embodied in the grand architecture of Versailles. But how was <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/re-opening-the-17th-century-reading-and-spectacle-in-the-french-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-featured-resources","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}