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Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
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Today, we are inclined to believe that intellectual freedom has no
greater adversary than the censor. In eighteenth-century France,
the matter was more complicated. Royal censors envisioned
themselves not as fulfilling a mission of state-sponsored
repression but rather as guiding the literary traffic of the
Enlightenment. By awarding pre-publication and pre-distribution
approvals, royal censors sought to insulate authors and publishers
from the scandal of post-publication condemnation by parliaments,
the police, or the Church. Less official authorizations were also
awarded. Though censors did delete words and phrases from
manuscripts and sometimes rejected manuscripts altogether, the
liberal use of tacit permissions and conditional approvals resulted
in the publication and circulation of books that, under a less
flexible system, might never have seen the light of day. In
essence, eighteenth-century French censors served as cultural
intermediaries who bore responsibility for expanding public
awareness of the progressive thought of their time.
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