Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Volume 18) (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
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ISBN: 0520201639 / Publisher: University of California Press, May 1995
From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public...
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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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