Skip Navigation



Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access published online on February 9, 2008
Journal of the History of Collections, doi:10.1093/jhc/fhm037
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Baxter, D. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Parvenu or honnête homme

The collecting practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin

Denise Amy Baxter


  Abstract

The collecting practices of Germain-Louis de Chauvelin demonstrate the complex negotiations by which the self was represented in early-eighteenth-century France. An ambitious man, Chauvelin rose to the positions of Keeper of the Seals (1727) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1733), prior to his fall from political grace and exile (1737). Chauvelin's collection allows for an examination of the ways in which the cultivation of what might be termed a modern sensibility might, in Paris in the 1720–30s, earn for its practitioners the label of either honnête homme or parvenu, or, in the case of Chauvelin's own precarious career, both.

Correspondence: Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas, PO Box 305100, Denton, TX 76203-5100, USA. Baxter{at}UNT.edu


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.