Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.
Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radica...
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Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University Press,
1968.
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