Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Glasgow
Chapter title
La Culture de la manufacture: les marchands fabricants
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Musées Gadagne/Somogy
Book title
Lyon au XVIIIe siècle: Un Siècle Surprenant!
ISBN of book
9782757205808
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
The essay is a case study – or micro-history - of an ‘ordinary’ silk manufacturer who died at the beginning of the French Revolution, leaving both a will and an inventory. Benoît Sauzay thus enters the historical record for the first time. The essay locates him in his social and cultural milieu from cradle to grave, focussing in particular on the contents of the substantial library he left. This library reveals the catholicity of the taste of Lyonnais manufacturers of this period, their awareness of Enlightenment ideas, and their fascination with Science and Religion.
