The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton

The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

France and Culture

Robert Darnton

298 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's 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...

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