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Publishers and Pirates: Book Publishing in the Age of Enlightenment – Darnton Robert – New Literary Review – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-4448-3044-4

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In the late 18th century, long before the advent of modern copyright, a whole world of book piracy existed along the French border. Swiss and Dutch publishers illegally printed banned and wildly popular works by Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and other Enlightenment philosophers, supplying French readers whose needs were unmet by the monopoly of Parisian booksellers. Drawing on the unique archives of one of the largest Swiss publishing houses, renowned historian Robert Darnton reconstructs the fascinating history of the book market in pre-revolutionary France—a world of adventurers, idealists, smugglers, and entrepreneurs. The author demonstrates how book piracy contributed to the spread of Enlightenment ideas and paved the intellectual way for the French Revolution.
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