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Mark Girouard is one of Britain's leading architectural historians and the acclaimed author of the bestselling Life in the English Country House, winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith Annual Literary Award, as well as Of Spirit of the Age, The Victorian Country House, The English Town and a biography of James Stirling. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes—their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes. This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. This is a perceptive and witty account of upperclass French society through the centuries, showing how the chateaux and manoirs that dot the countryside evolved in concert with their inhabitants to create a way of life admired and emulated throughout bltadwin.rug liberally from letters and diaries, inventories and books of etiquette, Mark Girouard uses these resources as well as hundreds of.
Written by Oxford architectural historian, Marik Girouard, his narrative illustrates how social, political and economic changes were reflected in the architecture. He provides the context for the evolution in style which fascinates. He provides a perspective on the life of the upper class in England for over years. Life in the French Country House. Girouard, Mark. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN ISBN Life in the French Country House [Girouard, Mark] on bltadwin.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Life in the French Country House.
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