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University of California Press

Private Lives and Public Affairs

The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France
by Sarah Maza (Author)
Paperback
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: May 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 354
ISBN: 9780520201637
Trim Size: 6 x 9
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About the Book

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.

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

Awards

  • Co-winner of the David Pinkney Prize 1994, Society for French Historical Studies