Publication: Mademoiselle Bonafon and the Private Life of Louis XV: Communication Circuits in Eighteenth-Century France
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2004
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Darnton, Robert. 2004. Mademoiselle Bonafon and the private life of Louis XV: Communication circuits in eighteenth-century France. Representations 87(1): 102-124.
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In 1745 a chambermaid in Versailles was shut up in the Bastille for publishing a roman à clef about the sex life of Louis XV. In attempting to get to the bottom of the case, the police uncovered some remarkable information about how oral media and print culture intersected. Their investigation opens up some broad issues related to the history of women, authorship, reading, and public opinion.
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