Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris /

Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ewing, Tabetha Leigh, 1967- author.
Imprint:	Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, [2014] ©2014
Description:	x, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford University studies in the enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2014:07 Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2014:07,
Subject:	Enlightenment -- France -- Paris. Enlightenment. Intellectual life. Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. Paris (France) -- History -- 18th century. France -- Paris. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10086629

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Other authors / contributors:	Voltaire Foundation.
ISBN:	9780729411424 0729411427
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index. Text in English.

Table of Contents:

Transcriptions : royal secrecy in the channels of 'on-dits'
Electing the emperor : problems of voice
Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information
Protesting the draft : popular opinion, chance, and royal justice
Declaring love, declaring war
A royal public : trumpeting the king's triumph after Fontenoy
Disloyal speech and war on other fronts
Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public
Gender as a poetics of indirection : a shopkeeper's wife negotiates for peace
Inchoate citizenship.