Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris

Robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK and Anthony Turner, Paris, France Robert Fox, Anthony Turner, Fabienne Le Bars, Michele Bimbenet-Privat, Giles Barber, Carolyn Sargentson, Lesley Miller, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Daniel Roche, Michael Sonenscher, Joan Thirsk, Francois Crouzet, Gillian Lewis.

'...a work of innovation and creativity like many of its subjects. It sets an agenda for future research.' Business History '...this book represents a significant advance in the study of early modern commerce and industry.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 4

• Contents: Introduction; Robert Fox and Anthony Turner; Les relieurs et doreurs de Paris au XVIe siècle, Fabienne Le Bars; L’influence flamande sur l’orfèvrerie parisienne au XVIe siècle, Michèle Bimbenet-Privat; The Parisian fine-binding trade in the last century of the Ancien Régime, Giles Barber; Mathematical instrument-making in early modern Paris, Anthony Turner; The manufacture and marketing of luxury goods: the marchands-merciersof late 17th- and 18th-century Paris, Carolyn Sargentson; Paris-Lyon-Paris: dialogue in the design and distribution of luxury silks in the 18th century, Lesley Miller; Noël Gérard (1685-1736) et le Magasin Général à l’Hôtel Jabach, Jean-Dominique Augarde; La luxe par excellence: les fêtes royales de Louis XIV à Versailles de mai 1664, Jean-Jacques Gautier; Between a moral economy and a consumer economy: clothes and their function in the 17th and 18th centuries, Daniel Roche; Fashion’s empire: trade and power in early 18th century France, Michael Sonenscher; Luxury trades and consumerism, Joan Thirsk; Some remarks on the métiers d’art, François Crouzet; Producers, suppliers and consumers: some reflections on the luxury trades in Paris, c.1500-c.1800, Gillian Lewis; Index.