Book about automatons in french language: Les automates (The automatons) - Item # for this book about automatons : L-08

Collector’s book about automatons: Les automates (The automatons).

Author of this book about automatons : Jean Bedel.

Summary of this book about automatons : this book covers the following subjects :

- Philosophers playthings , amusement for princes : the distant past of automatons, from occultism to science, princely divertissements, Jacquemart and his family, the mechanical kings, in the philosophers’ century, a young lady of 190 years.

-Ins and outs of automatons: master techniques, music put in a box, mechanical singing birds and musical jewels, the days of the crinolines, living traditions.

- The secret of automatons: the time of the Jacquemart, the mysteries of Vaucanson, go forward music, all kinds of animals .

This book is in French - 86 pages –numerous color and white and black photos .