LEADER 02769nam 2200421 450 001 9910633915403321 005 20230529182503.0 010 $a9783031122361$belectronic book 010 $z9783031122354 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7150618 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7150618 035 $a(CKB)25510405300041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925510405300041 100 $a20230416h20232023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTracing the shadow of secrecy and government transparency in eighteenth-century France /$fNicole Bauer 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Bauer, Nicole Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031122354 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 606 $aSecrecy 607 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 615 0$aSecrecy. 676 $a302.2 700 $aBauer$b Nicole$01271087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910633915403321 996 $aTracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France$92994403 997 $aUNINA