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The Writer's Lot fiction 25 Touching the deep core ofA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. In eighteenth century France, writers emerged as a new kind of power. They stirred passions, shaped public opinion, and helped topple the Bourbon monarchy. Whether scribbling in dreary garrets or philosophizing in salons, they exerted so much influence that the state kept them under constant