Identify: alloué, STN, Katzenmusik, rituals of journeymen printers.

1. What conditions prevailed in the eighteenth-century printing industry?

2. What do cats symbolize in early modern culture?

3. Why did the journeymen printers massacre the cats that belonged to their master and his wife?

4. What do Darnton's essay and the primary document at the end of the essay tell us about the Old Regime? Was it healthy and strong? Was it in decline?