Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech by Charles Walton

Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech

Charles Walton

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In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil ...

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