| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
printers, patrons, and the state in early modern France |
| Author: |
McLeodJane, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
University Park |
| Published: |
Pennsylvania State University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (302 p.). |
| Series: |
The Penn State series in the history of the book |
| Subject: |
Censorship - History - France - |
| Subject: |
Book industries and trade - Political aspects - France - |
| Subject: |
Printers - Social conditions - France - |
| Subject: |
Printers - Certification - France - |
| Subject: |
Printing - History - France - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271053639/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Summary: |
"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 asthey negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Providedby publisher |
| ISBN: |
9780271053639electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0271053631electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780271037684hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0271037687hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780271037868pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0271037865pbk. |
| Content Note: |
The early history of printers in provincial France, 1470-1660 -- Thevicissitudes 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 forlicences, 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 |