Licensing Loyalty : : Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France / / Jane McLeod.

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• VerfasserIn: McLeod, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the ex...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Early History of Printers in Provincial France, 1470-1660
• 2 The Vicissitudes of a Royal Decree:
• 3 The Royal Council Takes Control:
• 4 The Purges:
• 5 Arguments Offered by Printers in Petitions for Licenses, 1667-1789
• 6 Patronage and Bureaucracy Intersect:
• 7 Behind the Rhetoric:
• 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
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index