Elegantnaya zhizn'

Glavnyy predmet issledovaniya A.Marten-Fyuzh'e — svetskaya zhizn' Parizha v pervoy polovine XIX veka. Esli v nachale epyhi Restavracii (1814— 1830) svetskimi lyud'mi schitalis' tol'ko aristokraty-pridvornye, k seredine veka scenu zanyala novaya elita. Vazhnymi stali ne proishozhdenie i ne blizost' ko dvoru, a bogatstvo i talant; v parizhskih salonah aktrisy uravnyalis' v pravah s knyaginyami, bogatye bankiry i blestyaschie dendi sdelalis' lyud'mi ne menee svetskimi, chem gercogi i grafy, zakonodatelem svetskoy mody vmesto dvora stal Bul'var. Ispol'zuya bogateyshiy material: memuary, gazety, pis'ma, — A.Marten-Fyuzh'e sozdaet istoricheskiy i sociologicheskiy portret «vsego Parizha» — novogo svetskogo obschestva serediny XIX veka.