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Journal of My Life

By: Jacques-Louis Menetra, Daniel Roche (Introduction by), Robert Darnton (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 3 May 1989 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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22+

Dimensions(cm)
2.34 x 1.54 x 0.21

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An eighteenth-century Frenchman describes life in Paris, the events of the French Revolution, and his own fondness for pranks and jokes.

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The autobiography of an 18th-century Parisian glassworker, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into working-class culture during the Enlightenment and a street-level view of the French Revolution. Traveling on foot for seven years on a journeyman's tour of France, Menetra details a worker's everyday experience and what it meant to be a man two centuries ago. Three themes predominate: male friendship and the ties created by laughter and good times; the violence and brutality of lower-class life; and the amazing degree of sexual freedom accorded to men in a sexually segregated culture. Although well-placed footnotes and an extensive commentary by French historian Roche could assist general readers, this is a book to be treasured by scholars and specialists. LIBRARY JOURNAL

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