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The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
By:Robert Darnton
Published on 1996 by W. W. Norton & Company

Exploring the cultural and political significance of forbidden books in France, a historian considers the ideological origins of the Revolution and its connections with the Enlightenment by examining what the French read in the eighteenth century--with substantial excerpts included.

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