Private Lives and Public Affairs by Sarah Maza

Private Lives and Public Affairs by Sarah Maza

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Summary

From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. This book 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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Private Lives and Public Affairs by Sarah Maza

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.
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).
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ISBN 13 9780520201637
ISBN 10 0520201639
Title Private Lives and Public Affairs
Author Sarah Maza
Series Studies On The History Of Society And Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1995-05-11
Number of pages 354
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