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Graham Robb: Excentricité, 26 March 2009
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in 19th-Century Paris
by Miranda Gill.
Oxford, 328 pp., £55, January 2009,978 0 19 954328 1 Show More
by Miranda Gill.
Oxford, 328 pp., £55, January 2009,
“... from originaux.’ Perhaps it was easy in the 1870s, but no one now, especially not after reading Miranda Gill’s well-researched and historically sensitive Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in 19th-Century Paris, would claim to know in which cage of the human menagerie each of these specimens belonged. Was the Marquis de Bagueville mad or ... ”
