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 | The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1st Edition) by Robert Darnton Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 1985 ISBN-10: 0-394-72927-7 / 0394729277 ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72927-5 / 9780394729275 When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century | |