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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Daniel Wilsons in France, 1819-1919
    sub title: industry, the arts, the press, châteaux, the Elysée palace, and scandal
  name:
    name part: Palmer, Michael
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Scottish engineer Daniel Wilson (1790-1849) helped launch the industrial revolution in France and acquired a major art collection. His daughter, Marguerite (1836-1902), restored the château de Chenonceau, near the Loire Valley. His son, Daniel (1840-1919), close to Marguerite, became an MP, founded a newspaper chain, rose to become a leading republican politician and married the daughter of President of the Republic Jules Grévy. The younger Daniel Wilson's business activities and news strategies offended many and prompted his involvement in a scandal (the sale of the Legion of Honour decoration) that led to his downfall and that of President Grévy. Wilson's name became and remains synonymous with political corruption. This book is the first to examine the nexus of political and press connections in early republican France from his viewpoint. The struggle for press freedom since the 1789 Revolution culminating in the 1881 Press Law is assessed by considering the stance of Wilson, Grévy, the leading press magnate Emile de Girardin and other press tycoons. The flamboyant Marguerite, who hosted Gustave Flaubert in Chenonceau and journeyed to India, colors the saga.
  note: Michael B. Palmer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-232) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Daniel
      name part: 1840-1919
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Grévy, Jules
      name part: 1807-1891
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Marguerite
      name part: 1836-1902
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Daniel
      name part: 1790-1849
  subject:
    topic: Press and politics
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Political corruption
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Freedom of the press
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1870-1940
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: Third Republic, 1870-1940
  classification: DC348 .P348 2021
  classification: 944.06092/2
  identifier: 9780367460808
  identifier: 0367460807
  identifier: 9781003026778
  identifier: 9781000225921
  identifier: 9781000225938
  identifier: 9781000225945
  identifier: 2020027848
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200619
    record change date: 20210422111208.0
    record identifier: in00004431491