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The Life of an Unknown

The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France (European Perspectives)

by Alain Corbin

2001 271 pages eng

"Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history and part metaphysics: recreating 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. Risen from death and utter obscurity is Louis-Fr…

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