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LOUIS PETIT DE BACHAUMONT (169o-1771)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 131 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:PETIT DE See also:BACHAUMONT (169o-1771)  , See also:French litterateur, was of See also:noble See also:family and was brought up at the See also:court of See also:Versailles . He passed his whole See also:life in See also:Paris as the centre of the See also:salon of Madame Doublet de Persan (1677—1771), where See also:criticism of See also:art and literature took the See also:form of malicious See also:gossip . A sort of See also:register of See also:news was kept in a See also:journal of the salon, which dealt largely in scandals and contained accounts of books suppressed by the See also:censor . See also:Bachaumont's name is commonly connected with the first volumes of this register, which was published anonymously under the See also:title Memoires secrets pour servir d l'histoire de la Republique See also:des Lettres, but his exact See also:share in the authorship is a See also:matter of controversy . It was continued by Pidansat de Mairobert (1707—1779) and others, until it reached 36 volumes (1774—1779) . It is of some value as a See also:historical source, especially for prohibited literature . Extracts were published by P . See also:Lacroix in one See also:volume, 1859 . An incomplete edition (4 vols.) was undertaken in 1830 by Ravenal . See, in addition to the See also:memoirs of the See also:time, especially the Correspondance litteraire of See also:Grimm, See also:Diderot, d'See also:Alembert and others (new ed., Paris, 1878, 17 Vols.); Ch . Aubertin, L'Esprit public au X 1'III' siecle (Paris, 1872) .

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