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Occultism: The Occult Sciences and the Occult Revival

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

by Robert Darnton

A classic study of mesmerism in pre-revolutionary Paris as a popular science and a vehicle for radical ideas. Darnton shows how the movement connected science, fashion and politics in the 1780s.

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