Contents

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction
• Chapter One  The Freeing of the Presses, 1788–1791
• Chapter Two  The Fall of the Paris Book Guild, 1777–1791
• Chapter Three  The "Declaration of the Rights of Genius" in 1793
• Chapter Four  Cultural Crisis and Literary Politics, 1793–1799
• Chapter Five  The New World of the Printed Word, 1789–1799
• Chapter Six  Crisis, Again, and Administrative Solutions, 1799–1810
• Conclusion

• Appendix 1  An Index of Indebtedness in the Paris Book Guild, 1789–1793 (90 individuals)
• Appendix 2  Declarations of Bankruptcy by the Paris Book Guild, 1789–1793 (17 individuals)
• Appendix 3  Signatories of the Petitions of the Printers of Paris, 1795
• Appendix 4  New Printers and Publishers/Booksellers in Paris, 1788–1813 (1,224 establishments)
• Appendix 5  Publishers, Publications, and the Dépôt Légal, 1793–1799
• Works Cited