Tabetha Leigh Ewing : Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris
Paris 1744: a royal official approaches a shopkeeper’s wife, proposing that she become an informant to the Crown and report on the conversations of foreign diplomats who take meals at her house. Her reports, housed today in the Bastille (...)
Giora Sternberg : Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV
Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status (...)