Contents Acknowledgments Map Introduction Part I The Assembly of Notables: February?May 1787, November?December 1788 1 Paths to Political Consciousness: The Notables in the First Assembly, February?May 1787 2 Privilege, Property, and Participation: A Mutation in Elite Political Culture 3 The Society of Orders at Its Demise: The Vision of the Elite at the End of the Ancien Regime Part II The Media and the Public: Networks of Information, Opinion, Instruction 4 Political News as Coded Messages: The Parisian and Provincial Press, 1787?1788 5 The French Foreign-Language Press: Gazettes 6 The French Foreign-Language Press: Journals of Opinion 7 Manuscript Newsletters?Nouvelles a la Main 8 Pamphlets: A Network of Political Education and Polemics 9 Readers and Reading Sites: The Public and the Network of the Printed and Written Media 10 The Verbal, the Visual and the Festive Part III At the ?Grass Roots? 11 Popular Pamphlets: Political Messages to the Public 12 Can We Hear the Voices of Peasants? 13 The ?Grass Roots?: Community Assemblies Deliberating Conclusion Appendix I: Chronology Appendix II: Contemporary Accounts of Fetes Bibliographical Abbreviations Notes
