Paris: life & luxury in the eighteenth century

Introduction: in defense of luxury / Charissa Bremer-David

About time: the hours of the day in eighteenth-century Paris / Charissa Bremer-David

A new interiority: the architecture of privacy in eighteenth-century Paris / Joan DeJean

Dressing to impress: the morning toilette and the fabrication of femininity / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Perfectibility and its foreign causes: reading for self-improvement in eighteenth-century Paris / Peter Björn Kerber

Enchanted night: decoration, sociability, and visuality after dark / Mimi Hellman

Critical bibliography and exhibition object list / compiled by Kira d'Alburquerque, Emily Beeny, and Grace Chuang.