The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890

Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material things became a central means by which the past was accessed and imagined in nineteenth-century Paris, revealing how the Revolution triggered the rise of a new market for antiques and new struggles over the custody of France's heritage.

• | Author: Tom Stammers
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 18, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781108748636
• | ISBN-10: 1108748635