Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Forensic Storytelling and Antimonarchical Epistolarity -- Women, Equality, Liberty: Private Lives and Public Spheres, 1715-1815 -- Notes -- References -- 2 Les Causes Célèbres, Factum Or Fiction? Or: "That's What He Said!" -- Factum and Mémoire: The Role of Letters and Evidence -- Case Studies Within the Causes Célèbres -- Popular Case Studies -- Notes -- References -- 3 Tanastès Est Satan: Authenticity and Audacity in the Writings of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon -- Epistolary Style, Oral Tradition, the Development of the Novel and Other Forms of Women's Writing in Eighteenth-Century France -- Bonafon and the "Affaire Bonafon" -- The Publication and Subsequent Legal Process -- Social Media and Police Discovery of Tanastès: Bonafon Arrested -- Précis of the Novel -- Intertextuality and Theatricality -- Antimonarchical Epistolarity: The Letters and the Problematics -- Literary Production and Notes From Bonafon to M. Duval, Secretary of Police -- Strategy and Networking in Bonafon's Letters -- Notes -- References -- 4 Excess Or Success?: The Case of Mme Geneviève De Gravelle -- Notes -- References -- 5 "What's in a Name?": The Case of Angélique Schwab -- A Brief History of the Jews in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- Jewish Community Network and Names of the Connected Families -- Abraham Schwab -- Glucka-Angélique -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Note -- Index.