The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books classics) - Softcover

Darnton, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465015565 ISBN 13: 9780465015566

Publisher: Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

In this dazzling series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns, and countryside of France in what we like to call The Age of Enlightenment.

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Review:

"* 'A brilliant work of popular history' - NEWSWEEK * 'Authoritative... elegant and searching' - DAILY TELEGRAPH * 'A rich and splendid book' - Marghanita Laski"

About the Author:

Robert Darnton was born in New York in 1939 and was educated at Harvard (B.Phil., 1962) and Oxford (D.Phil., 1964). After working as a reporter on The New York Times, he returned to Harvard as a junior research fellow before moving to Princeton where he is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History. Professor Darnton is the author of many books on French history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0465015565
• ISBN 13: 9780465015566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320