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 his native city? These
are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton answers in
this classic work of European history in what we like to call "The
Age of Enlightenment."
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