The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history / Robert Darnton.
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New York :
Basic Books,
[1984]
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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.