Pamphlets and Public Opinion: The Campaign for a Union of Orders in the Early French Revolution

by Kenneth Margerison

Public opinion, according to the eighteenth-century understanding, was the product of rational, informed discourse and was the final and impartial arbiter of public policy. In the months leading up to the French Revolution, both the royal government and its opposition relied upon pamphleteers to sway public opinion, and the number of published pamphlets reached truly astounding proportions in late 1788 and early 1789 when debate intensified on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557531099
• ISBN13: 9781557531094
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"