A digital cabaret of mid-century music
Image: "Recueil d'airs variés, d'airs de danses (courantes et sarabandes) et de chansons pour boire, avec musique notée" (1600–1701) from Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
What was the third estate?
Who is Robert Darnton?
Visit an online cabaret of songs that would have been heard throughout the streets of Paris around 1750.
You can listen to Dr. Darnton discuss his methodology for sleuthing eighteenth-century oral culture in this lecture.
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