Subversive Words Public Opinion in

This important and original book addresses the nature of public opinion, the relation between rulers and ruled, and the role of popular rumours in eighteenth century France. Arlette Farge draws on chronicles, newspapers, memoirs, police records and newsheets to show that ordinary Parisians had definite opinions on what was happening in their city.

Arlette Farge is Director of Research in Modern History at the CNRS, Paris. Her previous books include Rules of Rebellion (with Jacques Revel, Polity, 1991) and Fragile Lives (Polity, 1993).

Foreword
Introduction
Journals, Newspapers and PolicemenScenes from Street Life
Words, Scorned and Persecuted
Words Caught in Flight: Government, Information and Resistance
Speeches of DiscontentForms and Motifs
Mobility and Fragmentation
Motifs
Speaking Against the King, orWords from the Bastille
'Who is to Stop me Killing the King?'
'Your Worthy Subjects Deserve a King who ShallSurpass Them', or, the Constitution of Successive
Figures of Royalty from 1744 to 1775
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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Subversive Words Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France

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