Rumor, diplomacy and war in enlightenment Paris /
Ewing, Tabetha Leigh,1967-author.
Voltaire Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index.
Transcriptions : royal secrecy in the channels of 'on-dits' -- Electing the emperor : problems of voice -- Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information -- Protesting the draft : popular opinion, chance, and royal justice -- Declaring love, declaring war -- A royal public : trumpeting the king's triumph after Fontenoy -- Disloyal speech and war on other fronts -- Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public -- Gender as a poetics of indirection : a shopkeeper's wife negotiates for peace -- Inchoate citizenship.
Enlightenment