Author: Jean-Baptiste GaultierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 35
Book Description
Réfutation d'un libelle intitulé : "la Voix du sage et du peuple"
Author: Jean-Baptiste GaultierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 35
Book Description
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Theodore BestermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bibliographie Des Écrits Français Relatifs À Voltaire, 1719-1830
Author: Theodore BestermanCambridge University Library Bulletin (extra Series).
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
La voix du sage et du peuple
Author: The Complete Works of Voltaire
Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : fr
Pages : 544
Book Description
Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains numerous short dialogues, essays and poems from just before and during the first year of his stay in Berlin. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.
La Voix du sage et du peuple
Author: Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution
Author: Charles WaltonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199710015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.