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Utopia's Garden : French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution, Hardback Book

Utopia's Garden : French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution Hardback

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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners.

Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Mus[5]eum d'Histoire Naturelle.

E.C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Mus[5]eum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers.

But the Mus[5]eum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people.

Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue.

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