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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton
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| #198549 in Books | Darnton, Robert | 2009-05-12 | 2009-05-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.73 x5.50l,.69 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | Basic Books AZ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| "Enjoy the journey" into French cultural history|By Rita Campbell|The author appears to set out to focus on moving toward a greater understanding of French cultural history through several essays. He does so by first examining folklore and fairy tales, and then moves toward what seems like a very odd event, a ritual cat massacre, which began with oppressed workers. As for the l||"Striking, original and often very clever."-- Time||"Brilliant." -- The Washington Post Book World||"An exercise in culture shock." -- Chronicle of Higher Education||"Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a ri
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? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustiv...
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