#  Robert Darnton 

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library

 

 

 



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 Robert Darnton has written and edited two dozen books, including *The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie*(1979, an early attempt to develop the history of books as a field of study), and *The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History* (1984, probably his most popular work). [Read more.](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/robert-darnton)