TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kurzweil,Allen
TI  - A case of curiosities
SN  - 0151157936
PY  - 1992///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Novel Breguet
KW  - Watch (general)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller, and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device--a talking mechanical head--that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre.--Publisher description
ER  -