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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bongie, Laurence L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

De Julie, Charles, 1725-1756.

De Julie, Charles.

Crime--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Crime.

Police--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Police.

Underground press publications--France--Paris--History--18th century.

Underground press publications.

Prisoners--France--Paris--Biography.

Prisoners.

Paris (France)--Biography.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Julie knew intimately the sights, sounds, and smells of the French capital, its Opera and playhouses, law courts, narrow dirty streets, hackney coaches, great houses, low taverns, and splendid public gardens. Working first as an informer and later as a police officer, he came to know only too well the activities of the capital's rakes, thieves, loan sharks, pickpockets, confidence men, blackmailers, crooked gamblers, and rowdy bullying soldiers, not to mention its twenty or thirty thousand prostitutes - all closely watched by as many as three thousand government spies and the eighteenth-century world's most invasive police network. 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. His story ends in the dreaded Bastille. Extensive "ations from Julie's writings trace the moral itinerary of a clever, manipulating rogue, spirited liar, thief, poetaster, and libertine.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Scenes and Characters

The Foundling

Companion Misfits, Scribblers, and Spies

Inspector Meusnier and His Mouches Abbesses

A Rogue’s Progress

Greluchon and Exempt

New Temptations

A Policeman’s Work

Clients and Protectors

Assembling a Team

Bulletins Galants: A Sampler

The Prisoner

Disaster Strikes

Prisoners in the Bastille

Awaiting Rescue

Un Coup Imprévu

A Change in Style

Pas Encore Las De Vivre

Planning for Freedom

End of the Journey

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Index

Notes:

Limited edition of 500 copies.

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

ISBN:

1-282-86292-8

9786612862922

0-7735-7224-4

OCLC:

180773043