HIST 3902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Female Promiscuity, Public Health Insurance Option, Human Frailty
23 Apr 2016
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Quarrels between ministers and have them write a pamphlet on you"re the best or this person is the worst. Produce pamphlets - libelles - could be single sheet but often pamphlet that was a sub- ject become more salacious sex and scales sell. Paris and london, london easier to escape the laws. Called into question directly the conduct of king and queen with morals and inability to rule. Queen often depicted in these drawings and attacked in most salacious ways and an indi- rect for attacking the king because if you can"t rule your queen you can"t rule the country. Comes out of tradition of writing in louis 15th to waiting about his official mistresses that the had too much power over him. Different because directed towards reigning queen offense meant life inprisonment. Produced because it dole well, writers hired because pictures expensive writing was not sold through book sellers of hawkers and printed outside the country.
