TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maza,Sarah C.
TI  - Private lives and public affairs: the causes c�el�ebres of prerevolutionary France 
T2  - Studies on the history of society and culture
SN  - 9780520916630
AV  - DC136.9 .M39 1993eb
U1  - 944/.034 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Trials
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Louis XVI, 1774-1793
KW  - Louis XV, 1715-1774
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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