{"product_id":"book-duhu","title":"The Great Cat Massacre","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhen 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy in the eighteenth-century version of \u003ci\u003eLittle Red Riding Hood\u003c\/i\u003e did the wolf eat the child at the end? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThese are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers \u003ci\u003eThe Great Cat Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call \"The Age of Enlightenment.\" A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349027987760,"sku":"BDduhu","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/duhu-cover.jpg?v=1761967651","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-duhu","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}