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 quotations from Julie's writings trace the moral itinerary of a clever, manipulating rogue, spirited liar, thief, poetaster, and libertine.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 944/.361034/092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Limited edition of 500 copies Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773572249 0773527931
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- DC133.3
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- B664 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 444 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- A Foundlings Journey to the Bastille 3
- Contents 7
- Preface 9
- The Foundling 15
- Companion Misfits Scribblers and Spies 53
- Inspector Meusnier and His 82
- Mouches Abbesses 82
- Greluchon Exempt 117
- New Temptations 137
- A Policemans Work 156
- Clients and Protectors 179
- Assembling a Team 192
- Bulletins Galants 203
- A Sampler 203
- Disaster Strikes 229
- Prisoners in the Bastille 252
- Awaiting Rescue 277
- Un Coup imprévu 293
- A Change in Style 305
- Pas encore las de vivre 329
- Planning for Freedom 354
- End of the Journey 381
- Epilogue 393
- Appendix 399
- Notes 407
- Index 443
