The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465012749ISBN-10:465012744UPC:9780465012749Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:France, Medieval, 18th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC9JYG3012
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
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?...
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?...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465012749ISBN-10:465012744UPC:9780465012749Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, ModernBook Topic:France, Medieval, 18th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC9JYG3012
A former professor of European history at Princeton University, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library. The founder of the Guttenberg-e program, he is the author of many books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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