num_pages: 320
description: In this dazzling series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns, and countryside of France in what we like to call “The Age of Enlightenment.”
language: English
title: The Great Cat Massacre
titlecomplete: The Great Cat Massacre
genres: Historical, History, School, Anthropology, Essays, France, 18th Century, European History, Microhistory, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2549
series: France and Culture
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Basic Books