In this perceptive and engaging book, Arlette Farge argues that there was a popular public sphere in eighteenth–century France. The eighteenth century was awash with rumour and talk; the words and opinions of ordinary people filled the streets of Paris. Drawing on chronicles, newspapers, memoirs, police reports and newsheets from the time, Farge shows that ordinary Parisians had definite opinions on what was happening in their city – visible, real, everyday events such as executions, price rises, and revolts. Yet the political significance of these opinions was denied by a government which preferred to regard them as unsophisticated, impulsive, and inept. Farge argues that, while public opinion continued to be officially excluded from the political field and even denied an existence by those in high places, it became one of the main sources of fear to the monarchy, which tried to keep it under continual surveillance through a system of spies, inspectors and observers. It was amid...

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