The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Material Texts)

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Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre.

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Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 552
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 22 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 0812221710
ISBN 13: 9780812221718

The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Material Texts)

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