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100 1  Darnton, Robert,|eauthor. 
245 12 A literary tour de France :|bthe world of books on the eve
       of the French Revolution /|cRobert Darnton. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2018] 
300    xv, 358 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction: the world of books -- Neuchâtel: our man on 
       Mission -- Pontarlier: smuggling the border crossings -- 
       Lons-le-Saunier: sizing up shops -- Bourg-en-Bresse: 
       selling books, collecting bills -- Lyon: entrepreneurs and
       buccaneers -- Lyon: domestic contraband -- Avignon: the 
       trade in trading -- Nîmes, Montpellier, Marseille: the 
       struggle for survival in the South -- Toulouse, Bordeaux, 
       La Rochelle, Poitiers: hard scrabble in the Southwest -- 
       Loudun: peddling and the capillary system -- Blois, 
       Orléans, Dijon: upmarket and downmarket in France's 
       heartland -- Besançon: book country at its best -- 
       Neuchâtel: an overview of the demand for literature -- 
       Conclusion: lived literature. 
520    "The publishing industry in France in the years before the
       Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble 
       affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with 
       (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax 
       regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's 
       appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous 
       Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to 
       scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and 
       librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a 
       trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, 
       publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink 
       manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and
       accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town
       of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other 
       places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a 
       hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for 
       certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. 
       Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François 
       Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 
       1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to 
       visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of 
       this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry 
       worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the 
       human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France 
       is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque
       comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the 
       service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, 
       immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at 
       a critical moment in France's history"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Favarger, Jean-François|xTravel|zFrance. 
610 20 Société typographique de Neuchâtel|xHistory. 
650  0 Book industries and trade|zFrance|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Booksellers and bookselling|zFrance|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  0 Books and reading|zFrance|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Book industries and trade|zEurope|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Traveling sales personnel|zSwitzerland|vBiography. 
650  0 Publishers and publishing|zSwitzerland|zNeuchâtel|xHistory
       |y18th century. 
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