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The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books Classics)

By Robert Darnton

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0465015565, 0465012744, 9781429485531, 9780465027002, 9780465015566, 9780465012749, 0465027008
LCC
DC33.4 .D37 1984
Open Library ID
OL3186139M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (39624723 bytes)
Pages
320\313
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Антропология;Историческая антропология

Description

When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton answers in this classic work of European history in what we like to call “The Age of Enlightenment.”

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