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Robert Darnton
Born
in The United States
May 10, 1939
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
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1984
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2 editions
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
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2009
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28 editions
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
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2023
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9 editions
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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1995
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20 editions
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
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2014
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19 editions
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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
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1968
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16 editions
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George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
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1997
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16 editions
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Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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2000
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15 editions
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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
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1990
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17 editions
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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
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2009
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10 editions
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“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.”
― The Great Cat Massacre
― The Great Cat Massacre
“To eat one's fill, eat until the exhaustion of the appetite, was the principal pleasure that the peasants dangled before their imagination, and one that they rarely realized in their lives.
They [the peasants] also imagined other dreams coming true, including the standard run of castles and princesses. But their wishes usually remained fixed on common objects in the everyday world. One hero gets "a cow and some chickens"; another, an armoire full of linens. A third settles for light work, regular meals, and a pipe full of tobacco. And when gold rains into the fireplace of a fourth, he uses it to buy "food, clothes, a horse, land." In most of the tales, wish fulfillment turns into a program for survival, not a fantasy of escape. ”
― The Great Cat Massacre
They [the peasants] also imagined other dreams coming true, including the standard run of castles and princesses. But their wishes usually remained fixed on common objects in the everyday world. One hero gets "a cow and some chickens"; another, an armoire full of linens. A third settles for light work, regular meals, and a pipe full of tobacco. And when gold rains into the fireplace of a fourth, he uses it to buy "food, clothes, a horse, land." In most of the tales, wish fulfillment turns into a program for survival, not a fantasy of escape. ”
― The Great Cat Massacre
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