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	'''Robert Darnton''' (born [[May 10]], [[1939]]) is an [[USA|American]] [[cultural historian]], recognized as a leading expert on [[eighteenth century]] [[France]].		'''Robert Darnton''' (born [[May 10]], [[1939]]) is an [[USA|American]] [[cultural historian]], recognized as a leading expert on [[eighteenth century]] [[France]].
-	He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1960, attended [[Oxford University]] on a [[Rhodes scholarship]], and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964. He worked as reporter at [[The New York Times]] from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 1982, and was President of the [[American Historical Association]] in 1987. [[As of 2005]] he is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of [[European History]] at [[Princeton University]], where he has taught since 1968.	+	Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the [[history of the book]]. One of his books is ''The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
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-	Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the [[history of the book]]. One of his books is ''The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France'' (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996). He currently is writing about [[electronic publishing]]. He is founder of the [http://www.historians.org/prizes/gutenberg/index.cfm Gutenberg-e program], sponsored by [[Mellon Foundation]].	+
	In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the [[Légion d’Honneur]], the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.		In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the [[Légion d’Honneur]], the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.
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Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France.

Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the history of the book. One of his books is The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).

In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.

Works

• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)
• The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (1979)
• The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982) ISBN 0674536576
• The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984)
• Revolution in Print: the Press in France 1775-1800 (1989) edited with Daniel Roche
• The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1989)
• Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle (1991)
• Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 (1991)
• Gens de lettres, gens du livre (1992)
• The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France (1995)
• The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (1995)
• George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (June 2004)