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Almanach de la Cour
The Almanach de la Cour, Seconde Édition, is composed of two sections. The first presents the royal and princely households at the court of Versailles, provides notices concerning the functions and benefits of the offices and lists the officers and employees. The second section provides an alphabetical list of the officers and employees, their birth and death dates, and titles, followed by their lodging at the court, their profits, pensions and fortunes as well as quotes from the anecdotal literature. The information is based almost entirely on archival and manuscript documentation.
Europa Triumphans
A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books. Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival. These festivals are considered not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of t...
