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The degree of social penetration of the Enlightenment is very difficult to measure and appraise. Daniel Mornet in his brilliant, pioneering work on the intellectual origins of the French Revolution investigated the avenues of dissemination of ideas, ranging from reading clubs and academies to private libraries and village cahiers, and concluded that even peasants were influenced by some of the reformist ideas of the philosophes, especially those regarding public education and civil equality.
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See Leonard Levy, The Legacy of Suppression: Freedom of Speech and Press in Early American History (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), pp. 144–149 and passim.
Eugène Hatin, Histoire du journal en France, 1631–1853 (Paris, 1853), pp. 48–49.
Eugène Hatin: Les gazettes de Hollande et la presse clandestine aux XVIIme et XVIIIme siècles (Paris, 1865).
A. de Boislisle, ed., Lettres de M. de Marville, lieutenant de police au ministre Maurepas (1742–1748) (Paris, 1896, 3 tvols.).
Some undigested reports of the gazetins were also published in the Révue rétrospective between 1834 and 1897.
See Abraham Leon Sachar, A History of the Jews (New York, 1937), p. 249.
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Robert, Forster, E. (1969). An Age of Reform?. In: Forster, R., Forster, E. (eds) European Society in the Eighteenth Century. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00386-0_12
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