Utopia's Garden
Subtitle: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226768632
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Social history; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Europe - France; History; Science / History; Europe - General; Eighteenth century; France; Museum national d'histoire na; Musâeum national d'histoire naturelle (France); Natural history
First sentence: Eighteenth-century observers variously described the Jardin du Roi in Paris.