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Notes
�. For a review of two recent books on this topic, see Zoë Heller (����).
�. William Egginton (����) argues that the culture of spectacle that emerged
with the Renaissance court and theater dramatically changed our
experience of the space we inhabit and created a world in which space
became theatrical. In this world, individuals became performers for a
larger public.
�. I examine some of the issues discussed below in Adams (����)
�. Gendron particularly emphasizes the influence of these individuals in
the post-Thermidor era in The Gilded Youth of Thermidor.
�. (Spang ����:���–��) suggests that the efforts of the social elite to seek
pleasure and luxury was at least in part an effort to restore the economy
and to soothe political anxieties following the tensions of the Reign of
Terror and at a time when the French economy was still experiencing the
effects of war.
�. See for example, the Journal de Paris, no. ���, �� Nivose Year III (January
�, ����), ���.
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