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Private lives and public affairs : the causes c�el�ebres of prerevolutionary France / Sarah Maza.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 18.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520916630
  • 0520916638
  • 0585079072
  • 9780585079073
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Private lives and public affairs.DDC classification:
  • 944/.034 20
LOC classification:
  • DC136.9 .M39 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The social imagery of political crisis, 1771-1773 -- The Rose-Girl of Salency : from theatricality to rhetoric -- Private lives and public affairs : upper-class scandal, 1774-1778 --The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786 -- "Innocent blood avenged" : exploiting judicial reform, 1785-1786 -- Domestic drama and the social contract.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.

The social imagery of political crisis, 1771-1773 -- The Rose-Girl of Salency : from theatricality to rhetoric -- Private lives and public affairs : upper-class scandal, 1774-1778 --The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786 -- "Innocent blood avenged" : exploiting judicial reform, 1785-1786 -- Domestic drama and the social contract.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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