Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris
Paris 1744: a royal official approaches a shopkeeper’s wife, proposing that she become an informant to the Crown and report on the conversations of foreign diplomats who take meals at her house. Her reports, housed today in the Bastille archives, are little more than a collection of wartime rumors g...
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Voltaire Foundation
2017
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