Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
… of public opinion as a form of political sociability in French politics. People > Politics Concepts > Publicity Keywords Censorship Finance French Revolution Public sphere Third Estate Jacques Necker, a protestant banker from the city-state … of public opinion. As well as opening the public sphere to new voices through the collapse of pre-publication censorship, the revolution also created new idealised authorities to which public men like Necker had to appeal, whether … hand in matters of credit, however, the Crown very quickly lost control of the political situation. As the Crown’s censorship regime collapsed against a tidal wave of new publications coming from all quarters of society, ‘public …
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