Journal of My Life |
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| Author:
| Ménétra, Jacques-Louis |
| Introduction by:
| Roche, Daniel |
| Foreword by:
| Darnton, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-06129-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 1989 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.00 |
Book Description:
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Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.
Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.