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The Great cat massacre

Paperback • 1984

The Great cat massacre

By Robert Darnton

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About the book

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 when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of ...Show more

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9780465012749

Published year

1984

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The Great cat massacre

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Paperback

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