Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal – François Bernier, Marguerite de la Sablière, a…

Versailles Meets the Taj MahalFranois Bernier, Marguerite De La Sablire, and Enlightening Conversations in Seventeenth-Century France\nAuthor(s): Faith E. Beasley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487502843, 978-1487502843\nSynopsis\nVersailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of Frances \""Great Century\"" and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de La Sablire and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher Franois Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Berniers travels and inscribed in his influential texts produced in collaboration with La Sablires salon. The literary works, correspondences, and philosophical texts produced by the members of this eclectic salon bear the traces of this engagement with India.\n\n Faith E. Beasleys analysis of these convers.