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This is the first study to recognize the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas argues that French opera moved away from the politics of the absolute monarchy in which it originated to address Enlightenment concerns with sensibility and feeling.Thomas, Downing A. is the author of 'Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 1647-1785' with ISBN 9780521801881 and ISBN 0521801885.
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