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The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France (European Perspectives)
The Life of an Unknown The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in NineteenthCentury France - European Perspectives Author:Alain Corbin Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-François Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century -- the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz -- from the ... more »Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.« less