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Jacques Pierre Brissot

These have recently been backed up by the historian, Robert Darnton.

Julie, or the New Heloise

Historian Robert Darnton has argued that Julie "was perhaps the biggest best-seller of the century".

Robert Darnton

In 1983 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title The Meaning of Mother Goose.

Cultural history

Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Patrice Higonnet, Lynn Hunt, Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf and Sarah Maza.

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