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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Darnton, Robert
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, [1984]
Subjects:	National characteristics, French. Folklore > France. France > Civilization > 17th century. France > Civilization > 18th century.

Table of 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.