The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France by Alain Corbin

The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France

Alain Corbin

272 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.... I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance... to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, A...

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