Private lives and public affairs : the causes célèbres of prerevolutionary France /

"From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza 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."-...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Maza, Sarah C., 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 18.
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