A French Parnassus for the Danes: Knowledge, gossip, and eroticism in La Beaumelle’s handwritten gazettes in Copenhagen
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Benefitting from a taste for everything French in the Danish-Norwegian absolute monarchy, La Beaumelle circulated in Copenhagen news and ideas from the French Enlightenment in a handwritten journal which content has never been studied before. The ideas and rhetorical strategies of his journalistic input are analysed and contextualised in the Danish political agenda and in the larger frame of the circulation of semi-private news and the intellectual history of the Enlightenment. Brilliant and irreverent, the author discussed moderate and subversive ideas along with much gossip from Paris. This article is the first study of what was written in the Gazette and connects intellectual networks and the history of the press, by focusing on the relationship between French thinkers and the kingdom of Denmark-Norway.
Original language | English |
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Book series | 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 2023 |
Pages (from-to) | 34-54 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISSN | 1652-4772 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
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