"The preface, introduction, and chapters 1-4 were originally published in France under the title La censure royale des livres dans la France des Lumières."
The origins of "enlightened" censorship
Censorship under Louis XV : the crisis of authority
Censors at work, 1750-1763
Cultural intermediary, agency of repression?
Royal censorship in a pre-revolutionary climate
Searching for a rudder
How to censor rebellion.
Royal censorship of books in eighteenth-century France by Raymond Birn. ISBN 9780804763592. Published by Stanford University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.