Arlette Farge: 4 books

Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France’s Ancien Régime were often associated with excessive...

Wenige Jahrzehnte vor dem Ausbruch der Französischen Revolution kommt es in Paris zu einem Aufstand, der kurz und gewalttätig ist: Massen rotten sich zusammen, plündern Geschäfte, werfen Steine und setzen Häuser in Brand. So unvermittelt wie dieser Tumult ausbrach, so plötzlich geht er zu Ende.Arlette...

In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Francois Caillat's provocative collection of essays and interviews based on his French...