 | Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Bernier François 1620–1688; La Sablière Marguerite de 1640?–1693; Orientalism -- France -- History -- 17th century; Salons -- France -- History -- 17th century; Enlightenment -- France -- His; Challenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century "orientalism," Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's "Great Century." Beasley Faith E. : Faith E. Beasley is a professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College |
