French Luxury Consumption And Culture Under The Influence Of Women In18^th Century

In18th century, Europeans advocate luxury goods and lavish lifestyle reached feverpitch. luxury became the keyword over the whole Europe, and France just became thestorm center of luxury consumption. The popular of France luxury consumption havemany reasons, such as the development of economy in industry and commerce,accumulation of traditional handicraft industry, Italy’s stimulation and so on. However,female is the significant factor in all of these reasons. In fact, In France,18th centurywas the age of the women, France Female played an extremely important role inluxury consumption. All French in18th century were eager to get the appreciationfrom outstanding women that makes an influential group of women such as the palaceladies, mistress, courtesan, and town girls affected French luxury consumption. Thesewomen not only influenced the tendency of French luxury consumption, but also ledthe French luxury consumption. Meanwhile, They also through enjoy a luxurious life,affects the French society and culture in the field of culture and art, such as forms ofluxury culture and art in France in18th century——the prosperity of salon cultureand rococo culture.However, the research of the relationship between French luxury consumption andFemale has been ignored in academia. Through the most representative women suchas such as the palace ladies, mistress, courtesan, and town girls, we can not onlyunderstand the general status of18thcentury French luxury consumption, but also cansee relationship of luxury consumption and Female, especially women in Frenchluxury consumption characteristics and the influence. Under influence of female, theFrench society especially palace filled with luxuries. French court luxuryconsumption has become the causes of the French revolution, the French society’senthusiasm for luxury goods also accelerated the birth of capitalist mode ofproduction. Capitalist mode of production also provide convenience for luxurylarge-scale production. To some extent, luxury consumption and the development ofthe French economy is interacting. Of course, Jump out of the framework of current domestic and foreign academic that focus on the political and economic aspects ofluxury consumption, from the perspective of female to research18thFrench societyculture is the key point of this paper, it can be explore France luxury consumption andculture under influence of female.