Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France by Robert Darnton

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

France and Culture

Robert Darnton

232 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced

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Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of me...

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