Review of Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
The question at the heart of Victoria Johnson’s book is an intriguing one: how did the Paris Opera, or the Academie royale de musique as it was known during the Old Regime, avoid disbandment during the French Revolution? If any prerevolutionary institution exemplified the luxurious consumption an...
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University of Chicago Press
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72388 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-5008 |