Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Creatures of Infamy: Lettres de Cachet, Family Honor, and the Uses of Secrecy -- The Governor's Son -- The Widow Nolan -- Mlle. de Nogent -- Growing Resistance and Critiques -- The Fate of Secrets in a Public Sphere: The Comte de Broglie and the Demise of the Secret du roi -- The Perils of Secrecy -- Transparency and a New Masculinity -- Rejecting Secrecy and the Secret du roi -- Those Who Know Your Secrets: Jesuit Secrecy and the Proto-nationalism of the Jansenists -- The Jansenist Worldview and the Monita Secreta -- The Problematic Jesuit Counter-Attack -- Secrecy and the Foreign Other, Transparency and the Patriot-Citizen -- "I Promise Never to Speak to Anyone": Police Practices and the Bastille -- Inviolable Secrecy -- Secrecy and Rumor -- The Obstacles to Reform -- Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: The Bastille, Its Cadavers, and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary -- Desire and Repression -- The Bastille and Its Buried Secrets -- The Marat of Versailles: Advocates of Transparency During and After the Terror -- The Marat of Versailles -- A Hundred Invisible Hands -- Moderate Thermidoreans and Transparency -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |