Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465010482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 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 the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
The Great Cat Massacre
Author: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465010482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 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 the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465010482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 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 the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
Contes moraux pour la jeunesse par Mme de Genlis...
Author: Stéphanie-Félicité Du Crest comtesse de Genlis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 189
Book Description
Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière
Author: Suzanna van Dijk
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042019980
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Recense les contributions des conférenciers lors du congrès international organisé à l'Unverisité d'Utrech en avril 2005 qui commémore le bicentenaire de la mort d'Isabelle de Charrrière.
Biographie Universelle, Ancienne Et Moderne
Author:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, art, and autobiography
Author: John T. Scott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415350877
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415350877
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.
Contes moraux pour la jeunesse par Mme de Genlis. Edition revue
Author: Stéphanie-Félicité Du Crest comtesse de Genlis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 189
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 189
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. [Edited by J. Edmands.]
Author: Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Les livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle: Texte
Author: Gumuchian & cie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A landmark bookseller's catalogue devoted to children's books, covering the 15th-19th centuries, and not limited to French books only. Vol. I consists of 6,251 annotated entries. Vol. II contains 336 plates of numbered fascimiles of title pages, bindings, illustrations and text pages.
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A landmark bookseller's catalogue devoted to children's books, covering the 15th-19th centuries, and not limited to French books only. Vol. I consists of 6,251 annotated entries. Vol. II contains 336 plates of numbered fascimiles of title pages, bindings, illustrations and text pages.
The Uniform Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1636
Book Description
With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.