The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics Before the French Revolution

By Jacques Revel and Arlette Farge

Book Overview

In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674931939
• ISBN13: 9780674931930
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"