Licensing loyalty : printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France /
"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publi...
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Penn State series in the history of the book.
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Table of Contents:
- The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660
- The vicissitudes of a royal decree : enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council regulating printers in the provinces
- The royal council takes control : the 1701 inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie
- The purges : the enforcement of printer quotas in the provinces after 1704
- Arguments offered by printers in petitions for licences, 1667/1789
- Patronage and bureaucracy intersect : five case studies in the reign of Louis XVI
- Behind the rhetoric : the social position and politics of provincial printers, 1750/1789
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Printers' wealth in the eighteenth century
- Appendix B. Some licensed provincial printers involved in the clandestine book trade, 1750-89, by town.