A case of curiosities
Allen Kurzweil · 1993
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In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device--a talking mechanical head--that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.--Publisher description.
Book details
- Year
- 1993
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Editions
- 6
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780140168990
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