Dairy queens : the politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette /
Martin, Meredith(Meredith S.)
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Catherine de' Medici, the French Cybele -- Absolutism and the sexual politics of pastoral retreat -- Health, hygiene, and the hermitages of Madame de Pompadour -- Marie-Antoinette and the Hameau effect -- Regenerating the monarchy : the Queen's dairy at Rambouillet -- Epilogue.
Architecture and women
Pleasure dairies
Politics and culture
Elite (Social sciences)