Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

(Part of the France and Culture Series)

by Robert Darnton

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"We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris...Darnton has opened up another rich vein of research in the eighteenth century." --Times Literary Supplement

In spring 1749, Fran ois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674066049

ISBN13:9780674066045

Release Date:September 2012

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Europe European France French Genres & Styles Historical Study & Educational Resources History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry Social History World World Literature

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