The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

by Darnton, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780465027002
• ISBN10: 0465027008
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1984-01-01
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Examines the history and culture of eighteenth-century France as it provides a view of the people of the cities, towns, and countryside during the Age of Enlightenment

Table of Contents

Also	p. ii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning Of Mother Goose	p. 9
Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre Of The Rue Saint-SÉVerin	p. 75
Appendix: Contat's Account Of The Cat Massacre	p. 102
A Bourgeois Puts His World In Order: The City As A Text	p. 107
Appendix Scrambled Estates In Provincial Society	p. 140
A Police Inspector Sorts His ¡ S: The Anatomy Of The Republic Of Letters	p. 145
Philosophers Trim The Tree Of Knowledge: The Epistemological Strategy Of The EncyclopÉDie	p. 191
Appendix Three Trees Of Knowledge	p. 209
Readers Respond To Rousseau: The Fabrication Of Romantic Sensitivity	p. 215
Appendix Ranson's Orders For Books, 1775-85	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 257
Notes	p. 265
Index	p. 285
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