ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
ROLIN (Frédéric) – STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
    ROLIN (Frédéric)
    STAGING THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Legal iconography and scenography of the Palais-Royal
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    2025
    21 x 26 cm., paperback with flaps, "Imprim'vert®" label, 290 p.
    In 1871, the Council of State was in dire straits. It had been suspended by the Republic, and its premises in the Palais d'Orsay had been burned down by the Communards. The decision was nevertheless made to reinstate it and allocate it the premises in the Palais Royal, where it still sits today. In this book, Frédéric Rolin takes a fresh approach to recount the history of this relocation and the 150 years that followed, revealing the profound and complex relationship that developed between the institution and the walls that surround it. It is a history of images, symbols, the scenography of spaces, and the networks of meaning that permeate them. The use of legal iconography and scenography allows us to delve into some of the inner workings of the institution: the difficulties of its republicanization upon moving into the Palais Royal, the way in which it gradually shook off the yoke of administrations that imposed decorative choices upon it that were not its own, but also the way in which, within this palace, it constructed a politics of memory, choosing, through the images and names given to its rooms, the image it wished to project. This continuous evolution of the Palais Royal since 1875 thus becomes the story of a performance. A performance of one of the most important institutions of the Republic, a performance of its relationship with political and administrative power, a performance of the law it creates there. Based on a careful reading of the sources and a transdisciplinary approach, this work will interest both legal scholars, who will look differently at places they know or frequent, and a wider public interested in the relationships between art, power and institutions in the history of the last two centuries.

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