Funerary arts and tomb cult
Subtitle: living with the dead in France, 1750-1870
By: Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781409422617
Subjects: Burial; History; Sepulchral monuments; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reforming funerary cult in France 1750-1870; title: Eighteenth-century France: rethinking sculpture and the body; title: The Bonchamps project: reinventing the effigy tomb; title: Louis-Philippe's tombs: burying a modern royal family; title: The poetics of the exhumed corpse I: a tomb for Napoléon; title: The poetics of the exhumed corpse II: the Cavaignac tomb.