Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris

Publication Data

• Title Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris
• Author Robert Darnton
• Publisher Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• Paris (France) :: History :: 1715-1789
• Paris (France) :: Politics and government :: 18th century
• Paris (France) :: Social conditions :: 18th century
• Paris (France)

Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris by Robert Darnton. ISBN 9780674057159. Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.