Robert Darnton on an Extraordinarily "Stupid" Smuggler in 18th-Century France

The director of the Harvard University Library and historian of the book shared his thoughts about digital publishing, the 18th century French book trade, and Google at a recent lecture co-presented by the libraries and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. In this clip, he discusses one of the colorful characters he discovered during his research.

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