Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France

Abstract

is an expansive history of changing furniture styles in France, from the late seventeenth century through World War I. Leora Auslander embeds her descriptions of furniture in the dramatic social, political and economic changes which transformed France during this period.The book is composed of several seemingly disparate stories: the longevity of ancien regime furniture styles, women's increasing responsibility for the home and its furnishings, France's long road to a stable republic, and finally, mechanization and the growth of a liberal, industrial, economy.Auslander's stated goal is to demonstrate that those sto-

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