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France At the Crystal Palace : Bourgeois title: Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century author: Walton, Whitney. publisher: University of California Press isbn10 | asin: 0520076923 print isbn13: 9780520076921 ebook isbn13: 9780585079424 language: English Consumption (Economics)--France-- History--19th century, Middle class-- France--History--19th century, subject Manufactures--France--History--19th century, Industrial policy--France--History- -19th century. publication date: 1992 lcc: HC280.C6W35 1992eb ddc: 338.4/767/094409034 Consumption (Economics)--France-- History--19th century, Middle class-- France--History--19th century, subject: Manufactures--France--History--19th century, Industrial policy--France--History- -19th century. Page iii France at the Crystal Palace Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century Whitney Walton UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY LOS ANGELES OXFORD Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. Oxford, England © 1992 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walton, Whitney. France at the Crystal Palace: bourgeois taste and artisan manufacture in the nineteenth century / Whitney Walton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07692-3 (alk. paper) 1. Consumption (Economics)FranceHistory19th century. 2. Middle classesFranceHistory19th century. 3. FranceManufacturersHistory19th century. 4. Indus- tryand stateFranceHistory19th century. I. Title. HC280.C6W35 1992 338.4'767'094409034dc20 9141181 CIP Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Portions of chapter 2 appeared in Business History Review 60 (Winter 1986) under the title" 'To Triumph before Feminine Taste': Bourgeois Women's Consumption and Hand Methods of Production in Mid- Nineteenth-Century Paris"; copyright © 1986 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. A version of chapter 7 appeared in French History 3 (1989) under the title "Pohtical Economists and French Industrialization during the French Second Republic (1848- 1852)." The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Page v In memory of David Page vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: French Taste and Manufacturing at the 1 Crystal Palace Exhibition Part One. Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France 1. Constructing the Bourgeoisie through Consumption 23 2. "To Triumph before Feminine Taste": Female 49 Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition 3. Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the 70 Bourgeois Household Part Two. The Effect of Bourgeois Demand on French Manufacturing 4. The Success of Hand Manufacturing in Consumer 117 Goods Industries 5. Flexible Specialization in Luxury and Art Industries 145 Part Three. Taste in Politics: The Exhibition as a Watershed 6. Art for Industry's Sake: Léon de Laborde's Plan for 171 Transforming Taste Page viii 7. Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization 199 Conclusion: Taste and Consumption in Industrial 221 Development Selected Bibliography 227 Index 237 Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS Following page 144 1. Long view of the exterior of the Crystal Palace. 2. Exterior of the Crystal Palace, north transept. 3. Floor plan of the Crystal Palace. 4. Interior of the Crystal Palace, main avenue looking east. 5. Silver dressing table by Froment-Meurice. 6. Carved walnut sideboard by Fourdinois. 7. "Stereoscope for viewing women up close." 8. "The Great Fountain of the Exhibition." 9. "On leaving the exhibition one feels an urgent need to sit down anywhere." 10. Salon, probably during the early Restoration. 11. Salon during the Second Empire: H. Montant, "By the Fireside." 12. Re-creation of a Restoration bedroom, including wooden bed. 13. Advertisement for iron beds (1833). 14. Iron bed by Dupont. 15. Stove heater in a bourgeois dining room during the Restoration. 16. Fireplace in the salon of a Second Empire apartment.
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