The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Jacques Revel, Claudia Mieville, Arlette Farge

The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution

Jacques Revel, Claudia Mieville, Arlette Farge

144 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history dark fast-paced
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In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel use this bizarre incide...

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