How Swiss was the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel? : a digital case study of French book trade networks

Should the famous Société typographique de Neuchâtel (1769-1794) (STN) be viewed as a typical and representative 'European' publisher-bookseller, a 'print shop across the border' that offered the latest product of the mud-raking underground to the French market, or a provincial, peripheral, and Swiss-focused distraction? The question needs revisiting before we both trumpet the value of our recently published French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database "” which recreates the society's entire knowable bookselling business "” and assess its potential for substantially revising scholarly understanding of the eighteenth-century French book trade and, dare we dream, the enlightenment.