Early Censorship in Paris: A New Look at the Roles of the Parlement of Paris and of King Francis I

Abstract

^ears about the spread of ideas deemed dangerous or false remain deep ithin the consciousness of even our post-Enlightenment world. Not urprisingly then, social groups in earlier centuries habitually tried to uppress such ideas to promote order in this world and to secure salvation ri the next. Then, as now, most people differed not so much on whether to ;nsor as on what to censor.