In 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an abominable poem about the king.
Why was the official response to these poems so intense? This book deals with this topic..
So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized Poetry recitals.
In 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an abominable poem about the king