La censura nella Francia settecentesca e la figura del colporteur tra realtà e finzione
Censure in eighteenth-century France and the figure of the colporteur between reality and fiction

Summary/Abstract: Censorship is of fundamental importance in eighteenth-century France, a fact corroborated by the increase in the number of censors throughout the century: from forty-one in the early 1700s to sixty-eight before the Revolution. In order to avoid the controls imposed by censure, colporteurs, that is to say clandestine book sellers, hid libertine works, political pamphlets, and the most controversial, yet loved books, in order to sell them to the richest clients.

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