Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775

"Steven Laurence Kaplan is the Homer of the humble loaf of ancien regime France....[An] enthralling, exhaustive and erudite study of Parisian bakers and their bread. Decades of work have gone into this volume...His achievement is to make of that most banal of objects--daily bread--and the humdrum particularities of its production, sale, purchase and consumption a central means of understanding the complex ways in which social, economic, political and cultural factors interacted in eighteenth-century Paris."Kaplan, Steven L. is the author of 'Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775' with ISBN 9780822317067 and ISBN 0822317060.