The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon |
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| Author:
| Darnton, Robert |
| Series title: | Material Texts |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-4183-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.