#  Robert Darnton 

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 email [robert\_darnton@harvard.edu](mailto:robert_darnton@harvard.edu) 

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- Regions: Europe, France
- Time Period: 18th century
- Themes: Cultural History; French Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; Political History; Social History

 I retired in 2015 as Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Since then I have published three books on publishing, the book trade, and the coming of the French Revolution. Now I am completing a fourth, tentatively titled "The Writer's Lot in Eighteenth-Century France."



 

 

 





 

 

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