Private Lives and Public Affairs

The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France

• Author(s): Sarah Maza,
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Pages: 354
• ISBN_10: 0520201639
  ISBN_13: 9780520201637
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Europe / General , History / Europe / France , History / Social History ,

Description:... 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.