All about Palais-Royal.

December 27, 2007 7:17 AM

I am looking for stuff on the Palais-Royal just before the French Revolution.

This is for a science fiction idea that an obscure idea-factory in my brain seems to have given me for Christmas.

I'm as interested in the daily life of the place and the sociology and economics of it as I am about its part in the Revolution.

The architecture and stuff is interesting as it serves this knowledge, but I'm mainly curious about this as a metaphor for something that takes place in a different place and time.

Academic accounts, fictional ones, etc. are welcome.

posted by By The Grace of God to writing & language (2 comments total)

Have just found this by Marge Piercy, will definitely give that a read.
posted by By The Grace of God at 8:47 AM on December 27, 2007

It's dry and academic, but you might want to look through Charles Gillispie's Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime.
posted by nasreddin at 9:51 AM on December 27, 2007