Pénétra
Bonnie Smith, 21 May 1987
Journal of My Life
by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, edited by Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Columbia, 368 pp., $30, July 1986,0 231 06128 5 Show More
by Jacques-Louis Ménétra, edited by Daniel Roche, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Columbia, 368 pp., $30, July 1986,
Disease and Civilisation: The Cholera in Paris, 1832
by François Delaporte, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
MIT, 250 pp., £22.50, July 1986,0 262 04084 0 Show More
by François Delaporte, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
MIT, 250 pp., £22.50, July 1986,
France: Fin de Siècle
by Eugen Weber.
Harvard, 294 pp., £16.94, October 1986,0 674 31812 9 Show More
by Eugen Weber.
Harvard, 294 pp., £16.94, October 1986,
“... Jacques-Louis Ménétra was an 18th-century glazier who worked for abbesses, for aristocrats, and for Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s landlord. Like Rousseau, but unlike any other artisan of his time, Ménétra has left an account of an adventurous life, full of journeyman’s wanderings, picaresque characters and amorous conquests ... ”
