Beyond the Barriers
Popular Culture and Parisian Guinguettes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16004241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Brennan (corresponding author), Thomas Brennan |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-153 |
| Publication date | 1984-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738534 |
| OpenAlex | W2321481029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
PARISIANS WITNESSED THE EMERGENCE of a new kind of recreation on the outskirts of their city at the end of the seventeenth century.' Taverns selling local wine in the city's suburbs offered themselves as the arena of Parisian entertainment and leisure. Their success, particularly among the laboring classes, was so great that they quickly became a symbol of popular culture. These guinguettes, as taverns in the suburbs of Paris were known, captured the imaginations of visitor and Parisian alike.2 To see Paris without seeing [the guinguettes of] la Courtille ... is like seeing Rome without seeing the Pope, was the refrain of a popular poem.3 A tourist in France before the Revolution (who had come to Paris out of pure curiosity) made a special trip to the guinguettes of the Porcherons suburb, where alas he was robbed, in order to see the sight about which he had heard so much.4 While similar to urban taverns in that they provided alcohol, guinguettes were essentially different establishments by the middle of the eighteenth century, offering distinct kinds of leisure and en
Aesthetics · Art · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |