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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.srt.js"></script>
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<style>
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body {
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color: #000;
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background-color: #eee;
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font: 14px verdana, sans-serif;
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margin-left: 16px;
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}
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h1 {
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margin-bottom: 0;
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}
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h2 {
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margin-top: 0;
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margin-left: 68px;
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}
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#left {
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float:left;
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width: 550px;
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}
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#example {
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padding-top: 56px;
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}
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code {
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background-color: #eee;
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width: 580px;
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}
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.srt {
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font-size: 16px;
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padding-left: 550px;
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width: 512px;
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}
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="left">
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<p>
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<h2>jquery.srt.js</h2>
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<p>
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play srt subtitles together with your <video> element
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Example:</b>
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<pre><code>
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<video src="http://example.com/video.ogv" id="video" controls>
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<div class="srt" data-video="video"
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data-srt="http://example.com/video.srt" />
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</code></pre>
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jquery.srt.js will try to load subtitles in all elements with 'srt' class.<br>
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'data-video' atribute is used to link to the related video,<br>
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if not data-srt is provided, the contents of the div is parsed as srt.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>Download:</b> <a href="jquery.srt.js">jquery.srt.js</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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<div id="example">
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<p>
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<video src="http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/stream/Robert%20Darnton%20-%20Two%20Information%20Systems%20at%20War%2C%20in%2018th%20Century%20France.ogg" id="video" autplay controls>
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</p>
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<div class="srt" data-video="video" data-srt="sample.srt">
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</div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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/*
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* jQuery srt
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* version 0.1 (November 28, 2008)
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*
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* Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
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* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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*/
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/*
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usage:
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<video src="myvideo.ogg" id="myvideo" />
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<div id="subtitles" class="srt" data-video="myvideo" data-srt="myvideo.srt"></div>
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all elements with class 'srt' that have a data-video atribute,
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referencing the related video, if not data-srt is provided,
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the contents of the div is parsed as srt.
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*/
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$(document).ready(function() {
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function toSeconds(t) {
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var s = 0.0
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if(t) {
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var p = t.split(':');
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s = s * 60 + parseFloat(p[i].replace(',', '.'))
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return s;
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function strip(s) {
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return s.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");
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}
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function playSubtitles(subtitleElement) {
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var videoId = subtitleElement.attr('data-video');
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var srt = subtitleElement.text();
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subtitleElement.text('');
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srt = srt.replace('\r\n|\r|\n', '\n')
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var subtitles = {};
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srt = strip(srt);
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var srt_ = srt.split('\n\n');
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for(s in srt_) {
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st = srt_[s].split('\n');
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if(st.length >=2) {
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n = st[0];
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i = strip(st[1].split(' --> ')[0]);
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o = strip(st[1].split(' --> ')[1]);
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t = st[2];
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if(st.length > 2) {
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for(j=3; j<st.length;j++)
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t += '\n'+st[j];
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is = toSeconds(i);
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os = toSeconds(o);
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subtitles[is] = {i:i, o: o, t: t};
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var currentSubtitle = -1;
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var ival = setInterval(function() {
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currentTime = document.getElementById(videoId).currentTime;
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subtitle = -1;
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for(s in subtitles) {
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if(s > currentTime)
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break
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subtitle = s;
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if(subtitle > 0) {
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if(subtitle != currentSubtitle) {
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subtitleElement.html(subtitles[subtitle].t);
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currentSubtitle=subtitle;
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subtitleElement.html('');
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}
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}, 100);
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}
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$('.srt').each(function() {
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subtitleElement = $(this);
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var videoId = subtitleElement.attr('data-video');
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if(!videoId) return;
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var srtUrl = subtitleElement.attr('data-srt');
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if(srtUrl) {
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$(this).load(srtUrl, function (responseText, textStatus, req) { playSubtitles(subtitleElement)})
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playSubtitles(subtitleElement);
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enlightenment,
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virtually all of the works that we associate
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with the french enlightenment
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themselves printed,
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but these printers also
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produce other things
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because they're in it not simply
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to spread enlightenment,
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many of them are sympathetic
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to the enlightenment
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they're in it to make money. So
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they will satisfy demand,
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whatever the demand might be...
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the pirates had agents in paris
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and everywhere else, who were sending
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them sheets of new books
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which they think will sell well,
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the pirates are systematically
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doing market research
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in hundreds and thousands of letters,
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they are sounding the market,
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they want to know
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what demand is
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the reaction of publishers at the centre
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is of course extremely hostile,
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I've read a lot of their letters;
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they're full of expressions
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like buccaneer
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and private and people without
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shame or morality etc.
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in actual fact many of these pirates
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were good bourgeois,
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80
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in Lausanne or, Geneva
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or, Amsterdam
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and they thought, that they were
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just 'doing business'.
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after all there was no
|
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|
international copyright law
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83
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and they were satisfying demand.
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|
If the demand hapend to be in france
|
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84
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|
well, that's a problem
|
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|
for the french,
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|
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|
85
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|
but not for the
|
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|
dutch or the swiss
|
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|
86
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|
I must admit,
|
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|
I always hesitate
|
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|
87
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to pronounce on
|
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|
world historical trends.
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|
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88
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|
But i've spend a lot
|
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|
of time in the archives
|
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89
|
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|
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|
and you can at least
|
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|
glimpse something,
|
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|
|
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|
90
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|
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|
that might look world
|
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|
historical from time to time,
|
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|
|
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|
91
|
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|
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|
as you go through
|
||||||
|
various bits of old paper.
|
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|
|
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|
92
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|
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|
What is clear is that
|
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|
during the 18th century
|
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|
|
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|
93
|
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|
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|
that the printed word as a
|
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|
force is expanding everywhere
|
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|
|
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|
94
|
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|
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|
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|
and we can go into a
|
||||||
|
lots of detailed studies
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
95
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
to find out why an
|
||||||
|
how that this happened
|
||||||
|
|
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|
96
|
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|
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|
The population is increasing, the
|
||||||
|
educational institutions are spreading,
|
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|
|
||||||
|
97
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
literacy is going up and there is this
|
||||||
|
new thing we call 'public opinion'.
|
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|
|
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|
98
|
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|
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|
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|
The phrase itself is first used in
|
||||||
|
the middle of the 18th century,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
99
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
I think the phenomenon
|
||||||
|
existed earlier,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
100
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
but for the last half
|
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|
of the 18th century
|
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|
|
||||||
|
101
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
there is a public that is
|
||||||
|
fascinated with public affairs,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
102
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
now the mechanism
|
||||||
|
for controlling the media
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
103
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
if you want to use that expression
|
||||||
|
notably the print media
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
104
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
is simply not adequate to
|
||||||
|
controlling this demand.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
105
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
So everywhere around france,
|
||||||
|
even within france,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
106
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
there are entrepreneurs who take it
|
||||||
|
upon themselves to satisfy this demand
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
107
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
and this can be in the form of clandestine manuscript newsletters,
|
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|
|
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|
108
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
it can be in a form of fully printed
|
||||||
|
books and there are many other forms
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
109
|
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|
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|
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|
the one that I find most
|
||||||
|
interesting is songs.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
110
|
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|
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|
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|
It turns out that everyone in the
|
||||||
|
18th century, if you take paris,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
111
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
had a repertory of tunes in his
|
||||||
|
or her had, as we do today.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
112
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
most of my tunes come
|
||||||
|
from commercials actually
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
113
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
People would improvise
|
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|
|
||||||
|
114
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
new words to old tunes,
|
||||||
|
everyday.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
115
|
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|
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|
And these would be sung
|
||||||
|
in the streets of paris,
|
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|
|
||||||
|
116
|
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|
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sometimes by professionals,
|
||||||
|
who had hurdy-gurdys
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
117
|
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|
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|
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|
and would simply belt out the last
|
||||||
|
verse tune that everyone knew.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
118
|
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|
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|
And it could be about
|
||||||
|
the kings mistress,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
119
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
it could be about a minister
|
||||||
|
who is abusing power,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
120
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
it could be on a whole variety
|
||||||
|
of quite political subjects.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
121
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
This new verse is then picked up
|
||||||
|
because it is a great mnemonic device
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
122
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
and the song is been song throughout
|
||||||
|
the streets of paris.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
123
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
I imagine the street of paris - it is just
|
||||||
|
echoing everywhere with songs.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
So that is a good example of how
|
||||||
|
in the absence of news media
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
125
|
||||||
|
00:07:54,440 --> 00:08:00,600
|
||||||
|
of proper newspaper, a new
|
||||||
|
kind of medium developed,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
126
|
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|
00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,240
|
||||||
|
that actually does
|
||||||
|
the job of newspapers
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
127
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
I've studied hundreds of these songs and I would say, they were sung newspapers.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
128
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
There's no way that an
|
||||||
|
absolutist political system
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
129
|
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|
00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,040
|
||||||
|
can totally suppress the
|
||||||
|
spread of information
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
130
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
new media adapt themselves
|
||||||
|
to these circumstances,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
131
|
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|
00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,240
|
||||||
|
and often they can become even more
|
||||||
|
effective because of the repression.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
132
|
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|
00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,680
|
||||||
|
It's a fascinating process
|
||||||
|
and it culminates frankly
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
133
|
||||||
|
00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,400
|
||||||
|
right on the eve of the france
|
||||||
|
revolution, so that i would argue,
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
134
|
||||||
|
00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,040
|
||||||
|
Not only did this new media system
|
||||||
|
spread the enlightenment
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
135
|
||||||
|
00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,920
|
||||||
|
but, I won't use the word
|
||||||
|
'prepared', the way for the revolution
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
136
|
||||||
|
00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,280
|
||||||
|
it indicted the old regim
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
137
|
||||||
|
00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,560
|
||||||
|
that this power, public opinion,
|
||||||
|
became crucial
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
138
|
||||||
|
00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,560
|
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|
in the collapse of
|
||||||
|
the government 1787-1788.
|
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|
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