Pamphlets and Journalism in the Early French Revolution: The Offices of the Ami du Roi of the Abbe Royou as a Center of Royalist Propaganda

Memoirs and letters aside, the three main sources for the study of public opinion during the French Revolution are the cahiers de doleances, the periodical press, and pamphlets. For a number of reasons pamphlets have received less attention than the other two sources. Because they are comprehensive and promise to reflect the views of a large proportion of the population, the cahiers have attracted sustained attention from the time of Toqueville.' The obvious advantages of daily accounts of events have also made of the periodical press a standard source for the history of the Revolution, a source that has recently received increased attention.2 The relative neglect of the pamphlet literature of the Revolution is