The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Robert Darnton

464 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the "classic" texts that, we imagine, gave rise to the Revolution. Yet very few of the standard works of the Enlightenment were as widely read as books whose n...

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