Robert Darnton
An Early Information Society

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Text of the Presidential Address (35 pages)

Notes to the text (53 footnotes)

Illustrations accompanying the text (9 figures)

Maps of Paris with Cafés indicated by number (6 maps)

Map Links Describing Café Talk (reports on 18 Cafés)

Café Talk as Reported by Police Spies

A Cabaret-Concert by Hélène Delavault

(texts of 12 French songs with English translations;

9 of them can be downloaded and listened to)

Fourteen Comic Songs from Paris, circa 1750, Original Texts

Public Opinion and Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris

(73 pages, to be published by the University of Greifswald in 2001)

Online Discussion (March 13-27, 2000)

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