The great cat massacre and other episodes in French cultural history

Peasants tell tales: the meaning of Mother Goose

Workers revolt: the great cat massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin

A bourgeois puts his world in order: the city as a text

A police inspector sorts his files: the anatomy of the republic of letters

Philosophers trim the tree of knowledge: the epistemological strategy of the Encyclopédie

Readers respond to Rousseau: the fabrication of romantic sensitivity.