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Author Darnton, Robert

Title Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris / Robert Darnton
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Contents Policing a poem -- A conundrum -- A communication network -- Ideological danger? -- Court politics -- Crime and punishment -- A missing dimension -- The larger context -- Poetry and politics -- Song -- Music -- Chansonniers -- Reception -- A diagnosis -- Public opinion -- The songs and poems distributed by the Fourteen -- Texts of "Qu'une batarde de catin" -- Poetry and the fall of Maurepas -- The trail of the Fourteen -- The popularity of tunes -- An electronic cabaret : Paris street songs, 1748-1750
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political culture -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Communication in politics -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Information networks -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Political poetry, French -- History and criticism
Street music -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism
Police -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Political activists -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Communication in politics
Information networks
Police
Political activists
Political culture
Political poetry, French
Politics and government
Social conditions
Street music
SUBJECT Paris (France) -- History -- 1715-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098050
Paris (France) -- Politics and government -- 18th century
Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Subject France -- Paris
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Electronic books.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010026303
ISBN 9780674059276
0674059271
0674262921
9780674262928