Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
"In 1775 a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Menagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor - in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise E. Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in eighteenth-century Paris. In the streets of the city, residents and visitors could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear.
Read more
Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction."—BOOK JACKET.
Liked Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
“If you want more of the same (history about animals), start with these.”
“If it was the Paris that hooked you, try one of these.”
-
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
-
Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends Through the Great War
-
Seven Ages of Paris
-
Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
