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Situated in northern Pennsylvania, French Azilum was a late eighteenth-/early nineteenth-century community of elite French refugees escaping the French Revolution. Inhabitants of the isolated community expressed the need to reconstitute themselves as the privileged class of the ancien régime by attempting to dress, build their homes, and furnish them in a certain fashion to distinguish themselves as elites and to reestablish the social hierarchy of the ancien régime in a frontier outpost. In this paper, we explore how the settlers at French Azilum used architecture, furnishings, and dress in an attempt to “keep up appearances.”
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Mann, R., Loren, D.D. Keeping Up Appearances: Dress, Architecture, Furniture, and Status at French Azilum. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 5, 281–307 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012577100772
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