Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary Francevolume 18

ISBN-13: 9780520201637 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 354 str.

Sarah Maza; Sara C. Maza

Opis

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.