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The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history / Robert Darnton.

Title
The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history / Robert Darnton.
Author
Darnton, Robert
Publication
New York : Basic Books, c1984.

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Description
xiii, 298 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • 1600-1799
  • Folklore > France
  • National characteristics, French
  • Civilization > history
  • Folklore
  • France > Civilization > 17th century
  • France > Civilization > 18th century
Genre/Form
Essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Peasants tell tales: the meaning of Mother Goose -- Workers revolt: the great cat massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin -- A bourgeois puts his world in order: the city as a text -- A police inspector sorts his files: the anatomy of the republic of letters -- Philosophers trim the tree of knowledge: the epistemological strategy of the Encyclopédie -- Readers respond to Rousseau: the fabrication of romantic sensitivity.
ISBN
0465027008
LCCN
^^^83045251^
OCLC
  • 10019746
  • SCSB-10856723
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library