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Françoise Parent, « Les cabinets de lecture dans Paris : pratiques culturelles et espace social sous la Restauration », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1979.294105
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Reading rooms Par cu/tura practice and social space under the Restoration Fran oise PARENT The author analyses an institution that was both commercial and cultural cabinets de lecture boutiques where people could come to read or borrow books and periodicals making printed matter available to far broader public than the private and public libraries The absence of direct sources has made it necessary to approach the subject in roundabout way via urban analysis the social workings of the cultural institution are thus apprehended in their Parisian setting at the beginning of the 19th century Far from confining itself to mere commercial geography the analysis provides us in return with an understanding of the conditions permitting the expansion of this reading market in the period under consideration and subsequently to suggest hypotheses more soundly rooted in the social composition of its clientele