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The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment
The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment Author:Jack R. Censer Jack Censer's achievement in The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French press in the dissemination of social and political ideas in the pre-revolution years. With one thousand titles and thousands of journalists, the periodical ... more »constituted an important phenomenon in French intellectual life; yet scholars in the absence of a synthetic treatment have failed to integrate it into their accounts. This study allows contruction of a far richer picture of the politics and intellectual life of the period, and counters the standard view of the Old Regime political system as already fatally undermined well before the revolution.« less