Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. NOTE ON CITATIONS FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOURCES VIII
4. Preface IX
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. L The Periodical Press in the Eighteenth Century 9
7. II. The Short, Unhappy, Principled Career of the Ami du Roi of the Abbé Royou 31
8. III. The Production and Distribution of the Ami du Roi 63
9. IV. The Office of the Ami du Roi as a Center for the Dissemination of Pamphlet Literature 93
10. V. The Subscribers to the Ami du Roi: Geographical Distribution, Gender and Collective Subscriptions 125
11. VI. The Subscribers to the Ami du Roi: Status and Occupation 158
12. VII. Enlightenment and Counter-Revolution 208
13. Appendix 1 : The Contract Founding the Ami du Roi 227
14. Appendix 2: Classification of Subscribers to the Ami du Roi as Coded for the Computer 231
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 247
16. Index 259