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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Animals, History, Culture) Hardcover - 2002

by Robbins, Louise E

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  • Title Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Animals, History, Culture)
  • Author Robbins, Louise E
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Date January 2, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00W6YW_ns
  • ISBN 9780801867538 / 0801867533
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.24 x 1.18 in (23.72 x 15.85 x 3.00 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Library of Congress subjects Wild animals as pets - France - Paris -, Human-animal relationships - France - Paris
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001000243
  • Dewey Decimal Code 636.088

First line

IF YOU HAD been walking down the rue Dauphine in central Paris in mid-January 1771, you would have encountered a large crowd of people clustered on the street.

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Citations

  • Choice, 10/01/2002, Page 300

About the author

Louise E. Robbins is an independent scholar and an editor at Cornell University Press. She has a doctorate in history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.