Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside by Alain Corbin

Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside

Alain Corbin

416 pages • first pub 1994 (view editions)

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In the French canton of Brienne in November 1799, local authorities were scandalized when a crowd of girls broke through the doors of the church and rang the bells in order to mark the festival of St. Catherine. Religious use of the bells was forb...

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