All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Cultural Strongholds of the Parisian Nobility in France of the Third Republic
| Aristocratic patronage was not new to France in the early Third Republic. In the three decades before 1914, however, it assumed new significance for Parisian nobles whose influence in government, at a national level, had declined. This paper examines cultural transfer and families’ maintenance of cultural forms in Parisian High Society, looking first at charitable activities and second at patronage of the arts. Patronage provided a power-base for the Parisian nobility in the social networking opportunities it afforded. At the same time, however, it generated subtle tensions in this milieu as wealthy ‘foreigners’ imported philanthropic ideas and traditions from their own cultural backgrounds into the French context. How were relations between patrons shaped by differences of class, politics, religion, and nationality? What was the relative importance of social versus economic forms of capital in the exercise of patronage? These questions go to the very heart of Parisian nobles’ strategy to preserve their cultural strongholds in charity and the arts on the eve of World War I.
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