Licensing Loyalty

Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

Av Jane McLeod, Brock University) McLeod, Jane (Associate Professor

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In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince authorities that printing done by their commercial rivals posed a serious threat to both monarchy and morality. By examining the French state’s policy of licensing printers and the mutually influential relationships between officials and printers, McLeod sheds light on our understanding of the limits of French absolutism and the uses of print culture in the political life of provincial France.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-02-11
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePenn State Series in the History of the Book
Antal sidor312
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271037684

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Early History of Printers in Provincial France, 1470–16602. The Vicissitudes of a Royal Decree: Enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council Regulating Printers in the Provinces3. The Royal Council Takes Control: The 1701 Inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie4. The Purges: The Enforcement of Printer Quotas in the Provinces After 17045. Arguments Offered by Printers in Petitions for Licenses, 1667–17896.Patronage and Bureaucracy Intersect: Five Case Studies in the Reign of Louis XVI7 .Behind the Rhetoric: The Social Position and Politics of Provincial Printers, 1750–1789ConclusionAppendix A: Printers’ Wealth in the Eighteenth CenturyAppendix B: Some Licensed Provincial Printers Involved in the Clandestine Book Trade, 1750–89, by TownNotesBibliographyIndex

“Beautifully written, elegantly argued, and extensively documented from archives all over France, Jane McLeod's investigation of how provincial printers were licensed and supervised between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of how the old regime worked. She shows how inadequate it has been to form a view of the world of print from evidence only about Paris and from illicit works produced beyond the kingdom's borders. Her book will now be essential to a fuller understanding of the prerevolutionary public sphere.”—William Doyle, University of Bristol