Print, Power, and People in 17th-Century France

Translation of author's thesis originally published in 1969.
Includes chapters on libraries covering ecclesiastical libraries, personal libraries and libraries for scholars.

Contents:
Introduction
Preliminary Chapter
Statistical Data
The Sources
Interpretation
Statistics by Subject p
The Parisian Book Trade in the Age of Christian Humanism, 1598-1643
The Arsenal of the Catholic Reformation
The Literature of the Catholic Renaissance
The Counter-Reformation
The Human Sciences: From Christian Humanism to Scholarly Free-Thinking
Classics of Philosophy and Science: Aristotelianism to Mechanistic Philosophy
News and Information: From Broadsheet to Newsbook
Literary Works
Book Distribution: The Role of Paris
Parisian Booksellers
Technology of the Book Trade
The Social Background
The Author
The Authorities and the Book Trade
Libraries
Small and Medium-Sized Libraries: Bookstocks
Types of Libraries
What the Inventories Do Not Say
The Paris Book Trade in the Classical Period, 1643-1701
Crisis in the Book Trade: External Factors
Book Production
Publishers and Public
Royalist Propaganda
The Government Tackles the Book Trade
The Results of Crown Policy: The Artificial Prosperity of the Paris Book Trade
The Results of Royal Policy: Lyons to Amsterdam
The Final Outcome
Religion
Literature
The Human Sciences
Science
News and Information
What Else They Read
The Literary World
Access to Books
Conclusion