His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien r?gime France.Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past. A gripping portrait of the social, literary, and political dynamics at work in prerevolutionary France.
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