Tracing the shadow of secrecy and government transparency in eighteenth-century France / / Nicole Bauer
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| Autore: |
Bauer Nicole
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| Titolo: |
Tracing the shadow of secrecy and government transparency in eighteenth-century France / / Nicole Bauer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| ©2023 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 302.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Secrecy |
| Soggetto geografico: | France Politics and government 18th century |
| France Social life and customs 18th century | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France |
| ISBN: | 9783031122361 |
| 9783031122354 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910633915403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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