Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Robert Darnton

Book Overview

"We are given a vivid sense of how songs were circulated and performed on the streets of Paris...Darnton has opened up another rich vein of research in the eighteenth century." --Times Literary Supplement

In spring 1749, Fran ois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066049
• ISBN13: 9780674066045
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"