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

Name: The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Author: Robert Darnton
ISBN: 9780465012749

by Robert Darnton

ISBN: 9780465012749

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When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter...

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