The Spirit of Despotism
Subtitle: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780199281206
First sentence: There is a moment in Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma when the hero Fabrice, no longer the naive teenager who had chased off to support Napoleon at Waterloo, but polished by four years spent at Naples, is introduced for the first time at the court of Ranuce Ernest IV, the Prince and absolute ruler of the state of Parma.