num_pages: 354
description: 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.
language: English
title: Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Volume 18)
publisher: University of California Press