Research Catalog

Title

From rogue to everyman : a foundling's journey to the Bastille / L.L. Bongie.

Author

Bongie, Laurence L.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 444 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"From Rogue to Everyman is the portrait of Charles de Julie, an archetypal rogue, through street scenes of eighteenth-century Paris. Julie knew the French capital intimately. Working as an informer and police officer exposed him to loan sharks, pickpockets, confidence men, gamblers, and thousands of prostitutes - all closely watched by an invasive network of police and government spies. Julie established close contacts with a number of the capital's leading "maquerelles" as well as their distinguished clients, and his underground news sheets, lifted mainly from secret vice squad reports, provided a restricted circle of wealthy subscribers with racy accounts of the town's sexual dalliances. From Rogue to Everyman brings this first-class rogue to life."--Jacket.

Subject

• De Julie, Charles, 1725-1756
• De Julie, Charles
• 1700-1799
• Crime > France > Paris > History > 18th century
• Police > France > Paris > History > 18th century
• Underground press publications > France > Paris > History > 18th century
• Prisoners > France > Paris > Biography
• Criminalité > France > Paris > Histoire > 18e siècle
• Police > France > Paris > Histoire > 18e siècle
• Presse parallèle > France > Paris > Histoire > 18 siècle
• Prisonniers > France > Paris > Biographies
• Paris (France) > Biography
• Paris (France) > Biographies

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-430) and index.

Language (note)

• Contains considerable text in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0773527931 (bound)

LCCN

^^2005295549

OCLC

• 55681744
• SCSB-12885648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library