Anonymity in publishing  

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Traité des trois imposteurs by anonymous (date unknown, edition shown 1777)
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The first classic of modern erotic literature, L'École des filles of 1655 -- like so many similar works after it -- was published anonymously. Anonymous pamphlets played an important role in the political culture of eighteenth century France. In Forbidden Bestsellers Robert Darnton points out that some of the most radical printed texts of the Enlightenment had no author. "They were the public discussing. They expressed the on dit, or talk of the town. Pierre Marteau for instance, was one of those clandestine publishers.

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