Acknowledgments

The research for this book would not have been possible without generous financial support from the French government through the Bourse Châteaubriand, the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation, the Alliance Franco-Américain, and the Fribourg Foundation. Rutgers University, the history departments at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, and the American Council of Learned Societies funded leave time from teaching duties for me to write and revise the manuscript. To these foundations and institutions I extend my gratitude.

I owe thanks as well to the many people who helped to make this book possible: first of all to Robert Darnton, Natalie Z. Davis, and Lawrence Stone, who have been continuous sources of guidance, dialogue, and criticism since this project began eight years ago as a graduate seminar paper at Princeton University. I doubt that there are finer mentors anywhere. I also owe a special debt to Lynn Hunt for her generous and challenging responses to my work over the years. Among the many others who have read part or all of this book and offered valuable comments, criticism, and advice I would like to thank in particular Keith Baker, Susanna Barrows, Jack Censer, Roger Chartier, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Leyla Ezdinli, Martin Jay, Thomas Laqueur, Kirstie McClure, Philip Nord, Jeremy Popkin, Robert Post, Daniel Roche, Peter Sahlins, Jerrold Seigel, Rachel Weil, and Isser Woloch. My gratitude also goes collectively to the members of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the Early Modern History Colloquium at Rutgers University, the French History Group at the University of Maryland, and the par-

ticipants of the French History Group at the University of California, Berkeley.

The research for this book could not have been accomplished without the enthusiastic and expert assistance of Mme Balayé and Mme Laffite, conservatrices at the Bibliothèque Nationale, M. Bouille, at the Archives Nationales, and Danielle Willemart, bibliothécaire at the Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille. I would especially like to thank Jeanne Bornstein at The New York Public Library, who spent many hours with me searching for obscure pamphlets. Elizabeth Dudrow, Andrea Rusnock, and Joseph Zizek provided excellent research assistance in completing the project, and Peggy Reilly input the manuscript using WordPerfect. Sheila Levine, Rose Anne White, and Anne Geissman Canright at University of California Press saw this book into print, no small task, I know, and I thank them. Finally, a very special thanks to Laura Engelstein.