Académie Française, 43, 85, 165, 166, 183–84, 190n22, 230n55, 233n83, 246–47n43 Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 5, 8 aesthetics, 1–3, 7, 38, 45, 47–63, 100– 101, 189–90n4, 193n30, 203n10, 210n77; vs. taste, 46–47 alchemy, 135, 159–61 d’Alembert. See Encyclopédie alphabet, 140, 158–59; alphabetical order, 59, 180; phonetic vs. hieroglyphic, 150–54 amateurs, 8–9, 191n18, 191n22 ana, 20, 173–75, 181 André, Yves-Marie, 11, 43, 45, 203n13; aesthetic theory in Essai sur le beau, 48–51, 60, 91, 104–7; morality, 55, 107; order, 163–64; reason 46–47 Arabic, 109–10, 119, 126–27. See also Orientalism architecture, 48, 54, 74–75, 95 Argens, Jean-Baptiste Boyer, marquis d’, 141, 161 Aristotle, 70, 73, 183; clarity and obscurity, 130–36, 143, 145, 147, 149; Rhetoric, 149–50, 154; scientific theories, 168, 170, 206n41, 250n67; unities, 42, 232n74. See also poetics; medical discourse arts, visual, 41, 52–53, 74, 82, 102–4, 191–92n22, 238–39n43; judgment of, 3–8, 24; painting, choosing subjects for, 40, 50; painting, color vs. line debate, 64. See also amateurs; architecture; patronage Asianic or Asiatic style, 113–15. See also Orientalism Attic style, 113–14, 117 Augustine, Saint, 118, 145–48, 159, 213–14n24, 242n78 Barthes, Roland, 157–58, 171 Batteux, Charles, 4, 5, 40–41, 43, 49– 51, 64, 85, 183 Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 2 Becq, Annie, 2–3, 11, 55, 58, 59 bel-esprit, 9, 92, 168, 193 Bible, 17, 110–11, 114, 115, 118–27, 128, 145–48, 154–55, 184. See also Christianity body: descriptions of, 48, 119, 122–26, 156; production and reception of art, 52–54, 101–3, 166, 172. See also medical discourse Boileau[-Despréaux, Nicolas], 44, 45, 76, 95, 114, 183–84, 186; Dialogue des héros de roman, 81; Le Lutrin, 62; sublime, 91. See also poetics Bollioud-Mermet, Louis, 15–24, 29, 31, 38, 40–41 Bouhours, Dominique, 11, 27, 44, 70, 86–87, 131, 148, 183, 223n1, 228n44 Bourdieu, Pierre, 12, 185 Boursault, Edmé, 90, 140 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de, 43, 58, 65, 165–73, 175, 181, 184, 206n41 canon, literary, 6, 73, 90, 186–87 Cartaud de la Vilate, François, 43, 51, 65, 210n77 Cassirer, Ernst, 43, 44–45, 96 Chapelain, Jean, 86, 90, 94–95 Chartier, Roger, 17, 23 China, 101, 103, 115–16, 126, 136–37, 150–52 Christianity, 69, 79, 87, 117, 118, 120; enigmatic language of priests, 143, 153–55, 158–59, 160–61; i n de x Index 264 epic poetry, 76, 95, 124; Imitation de Jésus Christ, 19. See also architecture; Augustine, Saint; Bible classicism, French, 41, 76, 97, 127, 148, 157–58, 185–86; Greek and Roman ancestors, 6–7, 69–73, 74, 75, 89, 113–15; parallel with Roman Empire, 66–67, 96–99. See also architecture; Aristotle; decadence; Greek; pleasure; poetics; Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns; Rome climate, 52, 82, 98, 101–4, 109, 112–13 color, 49, 102, 105, 115–16; as figurative speech, 107–8, 114, 151; in painting, 64, 103–4 Condillac, Étienne Bonnet de, 151–53, 156–57 Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 14, 29–31, 72–73, 96 conversation, 9, 88, 163, 165, 170–73, 175, 178, 180–81 Corneille, Pierre, 33, 52, 61, 72–73, 90, 144, 184, 186. See also qu’il mourût Crébillon, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de, 141 Crousaz, Jean-Pierre de, 6, 11, 43, 46–48, 55, 58, 75, 79, 140, 142, 163–64, 166 Crow, Thomas, 4–5, 8, 191–92n22 Dacier, Anne, 43, 57, 73, 95, 96–97, 112 Darnton, Robert, 43, 186 decadence, 6–7, 30, 72–73, 96–98, 157, 172, 174, 177 DeJean, Joan, 186, 190n9 Denis, Delphine, 171, 235n4, 238n42, 238–39n43 Descartes, René, 83, 149, 150, 160, 171; Cartesianism, 129; influence on André and Crousaz, 43, 45, 47. See also reason Diderot, Denis, 2, 5, 35–36, 121, 162, 163, 165, 180, 186–87; Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie, 33–34; Lettre sur les sourds et les muets, 62–63, 155; Palissot’s enemy, 27, 70; and philosophes, 9–12, 43, 55; rapports, 61–63, 92; and visual arts, 21. See also Encyclopédie Douglas, Mary, 1 Dubos, Jean-Baptiste, 2, 5, 6–9, 11, 36, 43, 45–46, 58, 81, 90–94, 112–13; eras of taste, 70, 72, 81, 84; foreign taste, 101–4, 115...