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Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Libraries, discusses his book, "Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris," presented by Harvard Book Store. Darnton discusses the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals that began in 1749. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? More lectures at http://forum-network.org
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