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"My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.... I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance... to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history and part metaphysics: recreating the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived. Risen from death and utter obscurity is Louis-François Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic. The result is a fascinating picture of the way people lived along the forest's edge during this tumultuous and eventful time in the history of France--and of the world. How did the residents of this unique community live and work together? How did life in the village differ from life in the forest? How did the church and various governments of France affect the everyday lives of these people, and of Pinagot in particular? With The Life of an Unknown, Alain Corbin presents a full record of a life, comprised of supposition, with room for each reader to insert his/her own imaginings onto the scene. Ambitious in its aims and exquisite in its execution, The Life of an Unknown is nothing short of a bold and successful attempt by a master to correct historians' all-too-common neglect of those relegated to oblivion with the passage of time.… (altro)
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A fascinating work of microhistory, though extremely specific and not likely to be interesting to anyone without a passion for 19th Century France. The author sets himself an unusual challenge: to write a biography not of a famous notable but of an obscure, illiterate peasant, who appears in history only through a handful of public records. These are exhaustively mined for every hint of detail, but much of the book is supposition about what Louis-François Pinagot might have thought or what people like him did. The real star of the book isn't Pinagot, who largely remains a cipher, but his tiny village of Origny-le-Butin, a very poor community on the edge of a forest. Corbin describes the town during Pinagot's 77-year life in fascinating detail:
- the town's 114 cultivable acres divided up into tiny plots by 63 farmers, none farming more than 3.4 acres, but all of whom were better off than the masses of laborers who frequently had to resort to begging to survive. - the decades-long rivalry with a neighboring town and the fight over which one would get an official church, neither being large enough to support an entire parish themselves - the ceaseless lawsuits between neighbors over who let whose cow graze on whose land. - the massive quantity of cider consumed in the local taverns. - their suffering under Prussian occupation in 1815 and again in 1871. - the powerful but frequently hapless local administrators, called upon by the central government to maintain order but often struggling just to keep people fed
As a companion to other, more general historical works, this is a wealth of specific details about an area and a type of people who don't get a lot of attention from historians. But it's probably far too niche for a casual reader. ( )
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PRÉLUDE Recherche sur l’atonie d’une existence ordinaire
Louis-François Pinagot a existé. L’état civil en témoigne. [...]
1 L’ESPACE D’UNE VIE
Mis à part un bref séjour, effectué au lendemain de son mariage, à Saint-Martin-du-Vieux-Bellême, commune forestière voisine, Louis-François Pinagot n’a jamais quitté Origny-le-Butin. [...]
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"My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.... I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance... to become part of the memory of his century." With these words, Alain Corbin embarks on a journey that is part history and part metaphysics: recreating the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived. Risen from death and utter obscurity is Louis-François Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic. The result is a fascinating picture of the way people lived along the forest's edge during this tumultuous and eventful time in the history of France--and of the world. How did the residents of this unique community live and work together? How did life in the village differ from life in the forest? How did the church and various governments of France affect the everyday lives of these people, and of Pinagot in particular? With The Life of an Unknown, Alain Corbin presents a full record of a life, comprised of supposition, with room for each reader to insert his/her own imaginings onto the scene. Ambitious in its aims and exquisite in its execution, The Life of an Unknown is nothing short of a bold and successful attempt by a master to correct historians' all-too-common neglect of those relegated to oblivion with the passage of time.
- the town's 114 cultivable acres divided up into tiny plots by 63 farmers, none farming more than 3.4 acres, but all of whom were better off than the masses of laborers who frequently had to resort to begging to survive.
- the decades-long rivalry with a neighboring town and the fight over which one would get an official church, neither being large enough to support an entire parish themselves
- the ceaseless lawsuits between neighbors over who let whose cow graze on whose land.
- the massive quantity of cider consumed in the local taverns.
- their suffering under Prussian occupation in 1815 and again in 1871.
- the powerful but frequently hapless local administrators, called upon by the central government to maintain order but often struggling just to keep people fed
As a companion to other, more general historical works, this is a wealth of specific details about an area and a type of people who don't get a lot of attention from historians. But it's probably far too niche for a casual reader. ( )