id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16061 Dousa, Thomas Jacob Soll. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 277p. alk. paper, $65 (ISBN 9780472116904). LC 2008-051142. 2010-01-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 3222 97 38 In other words, both the Royal Library and the Colbertine functioned both as a statesman’s library and as state archives, whose collections amounted to what Soll terms “an encyclopedia of the state” (p. 2). Colbert used the libraries-cum-archives under his control not only as sources of information for his personal administra- tive work but also as instruments for projecting state interests into the realm of cultural politics. cache/crl-16061.pdf txt/crl-16061.txt