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

France and Culture

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

Robert Darnton

298 pages paperback 1984

7 editions

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they cou...

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