The Life of an Unknown

The Life of an Unknown
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 0231118406
ISBN-13 : 9780231118408
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Book Synopsis The Life of an Unknown by : Alain Corbin

Download or read book The Life of an Unknown written by Alain Corbin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-Francois 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 Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.


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