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- Draws on hundreds of period records, interrogations, private letters, dossiers, religious and political pamphlets
- Explores the connection between growing nationalism and the expulsion of the Jesuits from France
- Takes a longue durée approach to the discourse on secrecy from the early eighteenth century to the Terror
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Book Title: Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
Authors: Nicole Bauer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12236-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12235-4Published: 01 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12238-5Published: 01 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12236-1Published: 30 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of France, Political History, Cultural History, History of Religion, Social History, Gothic Studies