The Great Cat Massacre

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ay. The event itself was a massive killing of cats in a sense to pay back for the frustrations the workers had towards the shops master printer Jacques Vincent and his wife. The event how ever wasn’t Darnton’s main point for the chapter it was the thought process of Nicholas and his friend Jerome. Darnton would explain just this through the remainder of the chapter. “It strikes the modern reader as unfunny… Where is the humor in a group of grown men bleating like goats… while an adolescent reenacts the ritual slaughter of a defenseless animal? Our own !
inability to get the joke is an indication of the distance that separates us from the workers of preindustrial Europe.” (Darnton Pg. 78)
The third and forth chapters continue to look at French classes and cultures. In chapter three you jump into the world of the Bourgeois in Montepellier. Darnton describes with the aid of Joseph Berthele, every nuance of the Bourgeois in Montpellier. “The Bourgeois is the modes of production, a certain variety of Economic Man with his own way o...