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This book takes its cue from the annus miabilis for French culture to outline French modernism and to situate it on the map of global modernism. Essays on speci
Remembering the Year of the French
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Time and the French Revolution
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A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken
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Peter Sahlins’s brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied “animal moment” in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, who