Royal censorship of books in eighteenth-century France
By: Raymond Birn
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780804763592
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Politics and government; Intellectual life; Literature and state; Censorship; History
Work titles: Censure royale des livres dans la France des Lumières
Notes: "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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of "enlightened" censorship; title: Censorship under Louis XV : the crisis of authority; title: Censors at work, 1750-1763; title: Cultural intermediary, agency of repression?; title: Royal censorship in a pre-revolutionary climate; title: Searching for a rudder; title: How to censor rebellion.