Recreating time, history, and the poetic imaginary: Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des Monuments français (1795-1816)

This dissertation is a hermeneutic and philosophical study of the emergence of the narrative museum in late eighteenth-century France. An early example of this genre, Alexandre Lenoir's creation of the short-lived Musée des Monuments français (1795-1816) out of the deposits to a post-revolutio...

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Main Author: Carter, Jennifer Jane
Other Authors: Alberto Perez-Gomez (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2007
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18473