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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 expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris relentlessly lobbied the government, hoping to convince authorities that printing done by their commercial rivals posed a serious threat to both monarchy and morality. By examining the French state's policy of licensing printers and the mutually influential relationships between officials and printers, McLeod sheds light on our understanding of the limits of French absolutism and the uses of print culture in the political life of provincial France.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Early History of Printers in Provincial France, 1470-1660
2. The Vicissitudes of a Royal Decree: Enforcing the October 1667 Order in Council Regulating Printers in the Provinces
3. The Royal Council Takes Control: The 1701 Inquiry and the Bureau de la Librairie
4. The Purges: The Enforcement of Printer Quotas in the Provinces After 1704
5. Arguments Offered by Printers in Petitions for Licenses, 1667-1789
6. Patronage and Bureaucracy Intersect: Five Case Studies in the Reign of Louis XVI
7 . 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
