The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France image
ISBN-10:

0002558351

ISBN-13:

9780002558358

Author(s): DARNTON, Robert
Released: Jan 01, 1997
Publisher: Fontana
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
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Description:

What causes revolutions? How does public opinion influence events? This work answers these questions by asking what the French people read in the 18th century. The answer lies only partially in the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophers: Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rousseau. More popular than these works were other books bought and sold "under the cloak". Salacious, blasphemous, often pornographic and treasonous, these formed a libertine literature that undercut all the orthodox values of the old regime. This history of these books, and of the booksellers who sold them, presents an idiosyncratic guide to the ancien regime and its citizens.

























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