The production, distribution and readership of a conservative journal of the early French Revolution, the Ami du roi of the Abbe Royou Book

	Preface
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
I	The Periodical Press in the Eighteenth Century	9
A	Censorship and Freedom of the Press
B	The Readership of the Periodical Press
C	Between the Authorities and the Public: Relations between Editors and Publishers
II	The Short, Unhappy and Principled Career of the Ami du Roi of the Abbe Royou	31
A	The Context: 1790
B	The Founding of the Ami du Roi
C	The Three Amis du Roi
D	The Ami du Roi of the abbe Royou
E	The Ami du Roi and the Revolution
III	The Production and Distribution of the Ami du Roi	63
A	Production
B	Distribution--Organization
C	Distribution--Efficiency
IV	The Office of the Ami du Roi As a Center for the Dissemination of Pamphlet Literature	93
A	Pamphlets and Periodicals
B	The Main Pamphleteers Promoted by the Ami du Roi: Cazales and Maury
C	Pius VI as Pamphleteer: The Papal Briefs of the Spring of 1791
D	Ideology and Business
E	The Pamphlets and the Paper
V	The Subscribers to the Ami du Roi: Geographical Distribution, Gender and Collective Subscriptions	125
A	Geography
B	Gender
C	Collective Subscriptions
VI	The Subscribers of the Ami du Roi: Status and Occupation	158
A	The Readership of the Ami du Roi: The Views of Historians and of the Editors
B	Problems of Classification
C	The Status of the Subscribers
D	The Occupations of the Subscribers
VII	The Enlightenment and Counter-Revolution	208
A	Subscribers to the Ami du Roi and Subscribers to Other Journals of the Revolutionary Period
B	Subscribers to the Ami du Roi and to Two Literary Periodicals of the Old Regime
C	From Enlightenment to Counter-Revolution
	Appendix 1: The Contract Founding the Ami du Roi	227
	Appendix 2: Classification of Subscribers to the Ami du Roi	231
	Bibliography	239
	Index	259