In these times of confinement we return to the beginning of the th century to learn about the historical circumstances that allowed intimacy to triumph among privileged groups. Indeed the end of the reign of Louis At that time new values linked to intimacy and comfort appeared as if the nobility and the upper bourgeoisie were looking for a respite from the rigid court protocol that had developed in Versailles during the endless reign of the Sun King. The bourgeoisie wanted access to domestic luxury since it brought them closer to the nobility and their way of life causing them to dilute or forget their non-privileged origins. The th century was born with the defense of a new concept of pleasure far from the ostentation that the Crown and the Church had used to demonstrate their respective powers.
This did not mean that rituals disappeared something inherent to the absolute Monarchy and the Catholic Church itself and of course to class society but they were simplified or remained simulacra without the previous apparatus and pomp. Now pleasure and CXB Directory joy prevailed in the private sphere of the king and the powerful which some have interpreted as the final triumph of the abuse of privileges the beginning of the decline of the Old Regime in parallel to an evident criticism from the noble spheres to the exacerbated absolutism that had been experienced previously although without enlightened or liberal connotations something that would come later and that would end up being devastating.
For its part the enriched bourgeoisie also joined this new mentality although from a somewhat different meaning. The bourgeoisie wanted access to domestic luxury since it brought them closer to the nobility and their way of life causing them to dilute or forget their non-privileged origins. fIn the artistic field the Academy of Fine Arts stopped exercising almost suffocating tutelage and this allowed greater creative freedom. In contrast to the Versailles court art an art of society emerges. The aristocracy and the bourgeoisie will compete in their role as patrons. Art is linked therefore to an intense social world in the urban environment compared to the rural world where the small nobility was isolated because it has not become rich with the rise of commercial capitalism when it was not clearly becoming poorer.
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