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in France from 1762 until Our Days") is an anonymous chronicle of events that occurred between 1762 and 1787. Historian Dena Goodman thinks it started as a manuscript newsletter emanating from Paris. It was first published in London as a multi-volume set from 1781 to 1789. Thus, although the entries
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There are eighteen volumes, each of which covers one or two years of events. The text consists of short, anonymous reports, each with an exact date, on political and cultural events. Some volumes have an "Additions" section which contains reports from prior years. Political and social figures,
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drama, Gluckist opera, Shakespeare's works, they gave an account, almost from day to day, in manners sometimes engaged and sometimes distanced, indignant, or sarcastic, of ephemeral or profound movements of public opinion in the course of constituting itself."
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offer an abundance of details about literary life in the 18th century: "At the center of the most brilliant debates for a quarter of a century, whether concerning the battle against the
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Table alphabétique des auteurs et personnages cités dans les "Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres en France" rédigés par Bachaumont
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literary figures, actors, artists, musicians, scientists, doctors, and royal mistresses are discussed. Some of the most frequently-mentioned individuals are
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Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours
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and is an indispensable tool for locating these within the work. The entire text is available online from the
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Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours
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made an abridged edition in 1858. An alphabetical index of the authors and people cited in the
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and Mouffle d’Angerville, but it is likely that the text is the work of multiple authors.
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bear exact dates, they were not published until long after the events they describe.
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The Mémoires Secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-century France
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In 1830, Ravenel issued a critical edition of the first four volumes and
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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
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Les Mémoires secrets dits de Bachaumont: édition et réévaluation
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Alphabetical Index of Authors and Persons Cited (in Gallica)
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appeared in Brussels and Paris in 1866: it is entitled
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Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres en France depuis 1762 jusqu'à nos jours
Republic of Letters
Jesuits
affair of the diamond necklace
bourgeois
Louis Petit de Bachaumont
Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert
Voltaire
Linguet
Necker
Duke of Orléans
La Harpe
Rousseau
Marmontel
Turgot
Comte d'Artois
duc de Richelieu
Cardinal de Rohan
Paul Lacroix
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
ISBN
0-8014-8174-0
The Mémoires Secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-century France
ISBN
978-0-7294-0571-3
The Mémoires secrets (in Gallica)
Alphabetical Index of Authors and Persons Cited (in Gallica)
Information on new critical edition, forthcoming
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