Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2012
Author
Author: Raymond Birn
Language
English
Number of Pages
195 pp.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
City
Stanford, CA
Region
Europe
Chronological Period
18th century
ISBN
9780804763592
Annotation

Contents: 

  • The origins of "enlightened" censorship
  • Censorship under Louis XV : the crisis of authority
  • Censors at work, 1750-1763
  • Cultural intermediary, agency of repression?
  • Royal censorship in a prerevolutionary climate
  • Searching for a rudder
  • How to censor rebellion
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