Rather than envision themselves as agents of state-sponsored repression, the royal book censors of eighteenth-century France wished, through their reports and decisions, to guide the literary traffic of the Enlightenment and expand public awareness of progressive thought.
Birn's exceptionally well-written narrative covers the century and a half that preceded the French Revolution.
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