Infinite History
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations
Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of att...
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations
Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of att...
