{"product_id":"1688-the-year-of-the-animal-in-france","title":"1688. The Year of the Animal in France","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn and around 1688, in Louis XIV's newly planted gardens of Versailles, in the Royal Library in Paris, in the city's literary salons, and in print and visual culture, animals made a dramatic entrance onto the stage of French history. Not that ''animals'' - a capacious category of nonhuman beings - had been previously absent or invisible at the courts of French kings or among the cultural elite of Paris. Diverse species of animals had long participated in ritual expressions of sovereignty in early modern France and elsewhere in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year 1688 - \u003cem\u003eannus mirabilis animalum, \u003c\/em\u003ethe wondrous year of animals - was nonetheless exceptional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[from the introduction]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357229523284,"sku":"A8B-26285","price":34.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/1688.jpg?v=1790811738","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/1688-the-year-of-the-animal-in-france","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}