In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures--most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette's Hameau at Versailles--have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about...
In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has...
