The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton explores episodes in French cultural history that shed light on how people in 18th-century France understood their world.
About This Book
Robert Darnton examines episodes from French cultural history that reveal how ordinary people experienced and understood their world.
The book focuses on events and practices that illuminate broader patterns in 18th-century French society and thought.
Darnton draws on archival sources to reconstruct the mentalities and cultural frameworks of the period.
Readers gain insight into the ways history can be approached through seemingly minor or strange occurrences.
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