![]() ![]() ![]() "Farge’s work is an eloquent testimony to the materiality of the archive and its power to astonish and delight."-Arnold Hunt, TLS At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive’s allure can forever change how we understand the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, and emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into new dimensions of the past. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. ![]() Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. ![]()
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