| Title : | The vanishing children of Paris : rumor and politics before the French Revolution |
| Other title : | Logiques de la foule |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Arlette Farge, Author ; Jacques Revel, Author ; Claudia Miéville, Translator |
| Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
| Publication Date: | 1991 |
| Pagination: | 146 p. |
| Size: | 23 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-93193-0 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : French (fre) |
| Descriptors: | Missing children z z x y - History - 18th century - France - Paris
Paris (France) - History - 1715-1789
Riots - History - 18th century - France - Paris
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| Class number: | 944.3603 |
| Abstract: | Is it cruel or is it kind? We often speak about a town in the same way we speak of a person. We observe its moods, describe its temperament and imbue it with a personality of its own. We study the town as we would study an unpredictable child. We scrutinize its enigmatic form as though it were a woman. We watch it living and breathing, hoping to discover its secret. For a long time, the lucid yet inscrutable spirit of Paris has been meticulously examined. In the eighteenth century, however, this ceaseless commentary on the town begins to change in content and function and aims to become useful as applied knowledge. It is then that the urban area becomes the subject of precise study and experimentation. Administrators, doctors and politicians all try to master the city's secrets in order to organize it more efficiently. Any disturbing sentiments of uncertainty are relegated to mere chroniclers and bystanders. In spite of this, Paris resists the confidence of the experts, disconcerts their certainties and evades their classifications and generalizations. Sooner or later they too must confront those mysteries which they had believed to be soluble: the town, the people, the crowd. |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=1430 |
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