A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution by Robert Darnton

A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

France and Culture

Robert Darnton

376 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in ord...

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