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  • Le libelle diffamatoire sur le web social | rezopointzero.com at 8:33 am, November 4, 2009

    Noonan v. Staples: “The most dangerous libel decision in decades” » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • The French refugees picked up tricks from the British press, but they also perfected a genre of their own: the libelle, or libel, a scandalous account of private life among the great figures of the court and capital.

    Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008

  • The most important printed sources include the anonymous and tendentious but very revealing libelle by Anne Gédéon Lafitte, marquis de Pelleport, Le Diable dans un bénitier et la métamorphose du Gazetier cuirassé en mouche ...

    Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008

  • [Barthe] entraine dans l'irreligion par un libelle intitule Le Militaire philosophe_ (1770, 12mo).

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • I'm making $350,000/year...own the house I briefly rented a room in years ago...it has no names for my parents, but still has them living in a city I haven't lived in for 4 years...that they've never lived in libelle

    Boing Boing Sean Bonner 2011

  • I'm making $350,000/year...own the house I briefly rented a room in years ago...it has no names for my parents, but still has them living in a city I haven't lived in for 4 years...that they've never lived in libelle

    Boing Boing Sean Bonner 2011

  • (_un libelle_) did not deserve their judgment ....

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

  • [Barthe] entraine dans l'irreligion par un libelle intitule Le Militaire philosophe (1770,

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

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