[REGNAUD (Pierre-Étienne)]. Speech on the... - Lot 98 - Osenat

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[REGNAUD (Pierre-Étienne)]. Speech on the... - Lot 98 - Osenat
[REGNAUD (Pierre-Étienne)]. Speech on the ancient government of the French monarchy. In Paris, at all booksellers, 1798. In-8, xxvii-(1)-335-(1 white) pp. in fawn granite calf, back to smooth, partitioned and floral with red title piece, thin frieze framing the dishes, golden castor adorning the cups and hunts, golden slices, autograph label of the author stuck on the upper plate to warn to keep this copy (original binding). FIRST EDITION. Pierre-Étienne Regnaud (1736-1820), a royalist journalist, first pursued a career as a lawyer and attorney of Parliament. From 1790 to 1792, he was a regular contributor to the press hostile to the revolutionary movement, Gazette de Paris, L'Ami du roi, etc. He withdrew to the countryside under terror, but offered himself in the press in defence of Louis XVI and, having been unsuccessful, courageously published his pleading, a copy of the author, abundantly corrected and increased by his hand in 1801, for a second edition that never saw the light of day. An autographed "Announcement of the work in 1801", on one of the first guards, justifies this work of amendments by the fact that the work had been written under the Directory in 1796-1797. The volume therefore includes about 160 autograph sheets and spoilers bound or marginally mounted, and many corrections in the text, on almost all pages, some of which refer to the added sheets. Several additions and corrections have in fact restored the original text truncated or altered in the original edition, which Pierre-Étienne Regnaud was unable to proofread because of the printers' imprisonment for six months during the printing process (as he informs the reader here in a new autograph warning). Many of the additions are of much greater importance, particularly those made in the notes, many of which are small autonomous treaties dealing with particular issues: regencies, emigrants, clergy, nobility, the constitutions of other European powers, notably Russia and England, etc. Thus no
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