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Les Industries du luxe en France

Les Industries du luxe en France

Bergeron, Louis

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 2738105548
ISBN13: 9782738105547
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Feb 6 1998
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
For the past three hundred years, luxury iedustries have constituted anessential part of the French economy, which in this area has acquired anuncontested edge over other national economies. The canons of French taste haveimposed themselves the world over through a variety of luxury items fromSaint-Gobain ice cream, to fine Sevres porcelain and Vuitton bags. Paris remains the capital of international haute couture and French vineyards upholdstandards that are followed the world over. Les iedustries du luxe en France is a social history of the iedustryfrom two perspectives: it analyses luxury enterprises as social institutionsand examines their products in the light of the lifestyle they represent. Louis Bergeron describes the role played by luxury goods in France's economyand society over the past three hundred years. (He sees it as somewhere betweenan art and an iedustry.) He then studies each one of the iedustries (goldplate, porcelain, crystal ware, haute couture, perfumes, jewellery, wines, homes, and automobiles), determining their specific weight in the economy andtheir relative state of prosperity, thus holding up a mirror to ourcontemporary lifestyle. Louis Bergeron is a historian and research director at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.

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