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the rough shape of a record keeping and monitoring system that was only just coming into existence.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
historian to use the archives as a vantage point from which she can bring to light new forms of knowledge that would otherwise have remained shrouded in obscurity.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
You realize that it is an illusion to imagine that one could ever actually reconstruct the past.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
their words reveal things that ordinarily went unspoken.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
appear to have the ability to reattach the past to the present.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
These guarded, enduring words are at the heart of the eighteenth-century political and police institutions that governed and produced them.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
conviction that the preservation of the judicial records has created a space of captured speech.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
A mutiny in the archive.