Robert Darnton Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. May 10, 1939
Birthday: May 10
The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.
topic: Mother, People, Toil, Step Mother, Mother Goose, Repressed
