Obscenity and censorship in the reign of Henri III
The Parisian Pierre de L’Estoile was an obsessive compiler of politically motivated, obscene ephemera in the reign of King Henri III (1574–89). This article explores how and why L’Estoile kept on adding to a vast archive of vile materials that he purportedly despised. Examining L’Estoile’s manuscrip...
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University of Chicago Press
2017
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