Private Lives and Public Affairs
Subtitle: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, No 18)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 11, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780520201637
Subjects: Communication Studies; Courts & procedure; Cultural studies; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Europe - France; History / General; Europe - General; General
First sentence: In the early 1770s, large numbers of Parisians followed the unfolding of a particularly complex and riveting court case.