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Whitney Walton approaches the nineteenth-century French industrial development from a new perspective--that of consumption. She analyzes the French performance at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to illustrate how bourgeois consumers influenced Frances distinctive pattern of industrial development. She also demonstrates the importance of consumption and gender in class formation and reveals how women influenced industry in their role as consumers.Walton examines important consumer goods industries that have been rarely studied by historians, such as the manufacture of wallpaper, furniture, and bronze statues. Using archival sources on household possessions of the Parisian bourgeoisie as well as published works, she shows how consumers taste for fashionable, artistic, well-made furnishings and apparel promoted a specialization unique to nineteenth-century France.
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France At the Crystal Palace : Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century
author
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Walton, Whitney.
publisher
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University of California Press
isbn10 | asin
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0520076923
print isbn13
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9780520076921
ebook isbn13
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9780585079424
language
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English
subject
Consumption (Economics)--France--History--19th century, Middle class--France--History--19th century, Manufactures--France--History--19th century, Industrial policy--France--History--19th century.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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HC280.C6W35 1992eb
ddc
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338.4/767/094409034
subject
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Consumption (Economics)--France--History--19th century, Middle class--France--History--19th century, Manufactures--France--History--19th century, Industrial policy--France--History--19th century.
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France at the Crystal Palace
Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century
Whitney Walton
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY LOS ANGELES OXFORD
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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.
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In memory of David
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: French Taste and Manufacturing at the Crystal Palace Exhibition
1
Part One. Consumption in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
1. Constructing the Bourgeoisie through Consumption
23
2. "To Triumph before Feminine Taste": Female Consumption, Gender, and Women at the Exhibition
49
3. Symbols of Status, Signs of Change: Furnishings in the Bourgeois Household
70
Part Two. The Effect of Bourgeois Demand on French Manufacturing
4. The Success of Hand Manufacturing in Consumer Goods Industries
117
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: Lon de Laborde's Plan for Transforming Taste
171
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7. Political Economists and Specialized Industrialization
199
Conclusion: Taste and Consumption in Industrial Development
221
Selected Bibliography
227
Index
237
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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."
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