Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France - Softcover

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Creatures of Infamy: Lettres de cachet, Family Honor, and the Uses of Secrecy.- Chapter 3: The Fate of Secrets in a Public Sphere: The Comte de Broglie and the Demise of the Secret du Roi.- Chapter 4: Those Who Know Your Secrets: Jesuit Secrecy and the Proto-nationalism of the Jansenists.- Chapter 5: "I Promise Never to Speak to Anyone" Polices Practices and the Bastille.- Chapter 6: Desire, Dread, and the Grateful Dead: Bastille Cadavers and the Revolutionary Gothic Imaginary.- Chapter 7: The Marat of Versailles: Transparency During and After the Terror.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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