![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. ![]()
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