From the publisher’s description:
From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.
David H. Pinkney Prize (1994)
Maza, Sarah (NHC Fellow, 1988–89). Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France. Studies on the History of Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 9780520081444.