Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary France (Studies on the History of Society & Culture)

by SarahMaza (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $44.45

  From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. This book argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.