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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.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 354
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
Publication Date:
11 May 1995
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520201637
Format: Paperback
Sarah Maza is Professor of History at Northwestern University and the author of Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty (1983).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
The Social Imagery of Political Crisis, 1771-1773
2
The Rose-Girl of Salency:
From Theatricality to Rhetoric
3
Private Lives and Public Affairs:
Upper-Class Scandal, 1774-1778
4
The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786
5
"Innocent Blood Avenged":
Emplotting Judicial Reform, 1785-1786
6
Domestic Drama and the Social Contract
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
The Social Imagery of Political Crisis, 1771-1773
2
The Rose-Girl of Salency:
From Theatricality to Rhetoric
3
Private Lives and Public Affairs:
Upper-Class Scandal, 1774-1778
4
The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786
5
"Innocent Blood Avenged":
Emplotting Judicial Reform, 1785-1786
6
Domestic Drama and the Social Contract
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX