Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France / Edition 1

by Sarah Maza

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520201637
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/11/1995
Series:	Studies on the History of Society and Culture , #18
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

1
The Social Imagery of Political Crisis, 1771-1773
2
The Rose-Girl of Salency:
From Theatricality to Rhetoric
3
Private Lives and Public Affairs:
Upper-Class Scandal, 1774-1778
4
The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786
5
"Innocent Blood Avenged":
Emplotting Judicial Reform, 1785-1786
6
Domestic Drama and the Social Contract

CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX