The great cat massacre

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-ce...

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Glavni autor: Darnton, Robert (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: New York : Basic Books, [2009], cop. 1984.
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Online pristup: The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. by Robert Darnton / review by Philip Stewart
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