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Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV Book

Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV, <i>Cultivated Power</i> explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European ga, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV, Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European ga, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
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  • Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV
  • Written by author Elizabeth Hyde
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, March 2005
  • Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants, many of which were becoming known in Europe for the first time, piqued the curiosity of European ga
  • Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kin
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Ch. 1Disorderly flowers1
Floral seduction : death, sex, and flowers3
Trading on the power of flowers19
Ch. 2Refashioning the culture of flowers in early modern France32
Curiosity and flowers35
The sweet society of the curious florists43
Ch. 3Cultivating the flower55
The florists' flowers58
Unlocking the door to the temple of flora76
Ch. 4Cultivating the man89
The theater of the goddess of flowers90
Nature into art107
"Jardin d'Hyver," or flowers in print119
Ch. 5Cultivating the king137
Royal precedents139
Flowers in the garden of Louis XIV145
Floral mercantilism159
Flowers and the "Histoire du Roi"167
App. AExtract of the inventory...by Sieur Cottereau of flowering plants and bulbs that he offers to furnish for the gardens of the royal households203
App. BPlants included in Jean Donneau de Vise's Histoire de Louis le Grand209


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