Dairy queens
Subtitle: the politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette
By: Meredith Martin
Series: Harvard historical studies -- 176
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674048997
Other titles: Politics of pastoral architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Catherine de' Medici, the French Cybele; title: Absolutism and the sexual politics of pastoral retreat; title: Health, hygiene, and the hermitages of Madame de Pompadour; title: Marie-Antoinette and the Hameau effect; title: Regenerating the monarchy : the Queen's dairy at Rambouillet; title: Epilogue.