Title From rogue to everyman : a foundling's journey to the Bastille / L.L. Bongie

Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits Contents Contents -- Preface -- part one Scenes and Characters -- part two A Rogue�s Progress -- part three The Prisoner -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index Summary Julie knew intimately the sights, sounds, and smells of the French capital, its Opera and playhouses, law courts, narrow dirty streets, hackney coaches, great houses, low taverns, and splendid public gardens. Working first as an informer and later as a police officer, he came to know only too well the activities of the capital's rakes, thieves, loan sharks, pickpockets, confidence men, blackmailers, crooked gamblers, and rowdy bullying soldiers, not to mention its twenty or thirty thousand prostitutes - all closely watched by as many as three thousand government spies and the eighteenth-century world's most invasive police network. Julie established close contacts with a number of the capital's leading "maquerelles" as well as their distinguished clients, and his underground news sheets, lifted mainly from secret vice squad reports, provided a restricted circle of wealthy subscribers with racy accounts of the town's sexual dalliances. His story ends in the dreaded Bastille. Extensive "ations from Julie's writings trace the moral itinerary of a clever, manipulating rogue, spirited liar, thief, poetaster, and libertine Notes Limited edition of 500 copies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English, with some text in French Print version record Subject De Julie, Charles Crime -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century Police -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century Underground press publications -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century Prisoners -- France -- Paris -- Biography HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Crime Police Prisoners Underground press publications Gefangener Verbrechen Untergrundpresse Paris (France) -- Biography France -- Paris Paris Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773572249 0773572244

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