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Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France
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Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France / Jane McLeod.
ISBN
9780271037684 (acid-free paper)
0271037687 (acid-free paper)
Published
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
302 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2011
Series
The Penn State series in the history of the book
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660
The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces
The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie
The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704
Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789
Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI
Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789
Conclusion
Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century
Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town.
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