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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Book

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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying reputations, it has often helped to delegitimize regimes and bring down governments. Nowhere has this been more, The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
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  • The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
  • Written by author Robert Darnton
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 8/22/2011
  • Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying reputations, it has often helped to delegitimize regimes and bring down governments. Nowhere has this been more
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Introduction

PART I. INTERLOCKING LIBELS
1. The Armor-Plated Gazetteer
2. The Devil in the Holy Water
3. The Parisian Police Unveiled
4. The Secret Life of Pierre Manuel
5. The End of the Line
6. Bibliography and Iconography
7. Reading

PART II. POLITICS AND POLICE WORK
8. Slander and Politics
9. The Book Police at Work
10. A Double Agent and His Authors
11. Secret Missions
12. Hugger-Mugger
13. Entrapment
14. The View from Versailles
15. The Devil in the Bastille
16. Bohemians Before Bohemianism
17. The Grub Street Route to Revolution
18. Slander into Terror
19. Words and Deeds
20. Postscript, 1802

PART III. THE LITERATURE OF LIBEL: BASIC INGREDIENTS
21. The Nature of Libels
22. Anecdotes
23. Portraits
24. News

PART IV. THE LITERATURE OF LIBEL: PRIVATE LIVES
25. Revolutionary Metamorphoses
26. Sex and Politics
27. Decadence and Despotism
28. Royal Depravity
29. Private Lives and Public Affairs

Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments


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