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$105.00 cloth $35.00 paper $34.99 pdf In this ambitious book, Sewell argues that the development of capitalism in eighteenth-century France led to the rise of civic equality and its triumph in the Revolution. The philosophes Voltaire, Denis Diderot, the Abbé Morellet, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau took advantage by publishing attacks on the privileges and restrictions of the old régime, which they saw as violating civic equality and hindering economic growth. [Extracted from the article]

The contract was signed by eighty-three witnesses in the parish of Notre Dame de la Peine, Angoulême, in southwestern France, on December 9, 1764. The groom was in the process of becoming a schoolmaster, while the bride's brother Gabriel Ferrand was in the same trade, suggesting (to this reviewer, anyway; Rothschild does not mention it) that the couple met each other through Gabriel. Estienne Allemand (later called Allemand Lavigerie or just Lavigerie) lived to the east of Notre Dame de la Peine, in the parish of St. Antonin, near the rue de la Cloche Verte. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light," by Susan Cahill and Marion Ranoux, is presented.