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Publishing Against the King: French Civil War Pamphlets
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Publishing Against the King: French Civil War Pamphlets
From 1648 to 1653 a civil war, known as the Fronde, raged in France, with the nobility and most of the people of France on one side, and the royal government under the child-king Louis XIV and his hated chief…
The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries
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The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries
A guest post by Kathryn Gucer In 1652, Gabriel Naudé argued passionately for the importance of libraries and collecting books in a brief pamphlet, Advis a nosseigneurs de Parliament. Naudé repudiates a proposal by the parliament of Paris to break…