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Originally published in 1878, this compilation of text and more
than 400 illustrations assembled by the 19th-century bibliophile,
librarian and amateur historian Paul Lacroix unfolds an unusual
panorama of the life of the period, putting the reader into closer
touch with the scholars and surgeons, the magicians, rulers and
actors who peopled these centuries. It was an age of slowly
widening horizons for scientists and philosophers, yet an age of
stubborn superstition, when sorcerers flourished in pacts with
demons and scholars pursued their studies alert to accusations of
influence by evil spirits. Paul Lacroix was curator of the Imperial
Library of the Paris Arsenal. Born in 1806, he was well known
during his lifetime as the author of many popular historical works.
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