The Emergence of Modern Political Scandal: A French Threshold Crossed in 1790
This event has been relocated
Friday, February 12th, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 12, 2016 | 10:00AM - 12:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Description
Jay M. Smith is a specialist of early-modern France, especially in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most of his work traces the negotiation of change over time, and he often uses the history of language to gain access to processes of change. Smith has written about the development of royal absolutism, the emergence of patriotic habits of thought under the old regime, the origins of the French Revolution, the history of the nobility, and the fascinating legend surrounding the beast of the Gévaudan. He is now working on several projects including scandal in the 1780s and municipal politics in the wake of the L’Averdy reforms of the 1760s.
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