General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English imprints
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1965
Category : English imprints
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Author : British Library
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Reference
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Author : Claude de SAINT-SIMON (successively Bishop of Noyon and of Metz.)
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
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Author : Charles Walton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0199710015
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author : Paul Alexandre De GUÉNET (Bishop of Saint-Pons.)
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : Eglise catholique. Diocèse (Metz)
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : Eglise catholique. Diocèse (Saint-Pons-de-Thomières, Hérault)
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : Keith Michael Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1990-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521385787
A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'.
Author : Charles Edmund Lart
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Bristol (England)
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