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

France and Culture

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Robert Darnton

232 pages paperback 1968

2 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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