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MASUYER (Marie-Gabriel). Considerations on the current state of societies in Europe, before and since Buonaparte's return to France. In Lons-le-Saunier, at Mr. Delhorme's home (June 1815). In-8, lxxvi-181-(1) pp., stapled under a waiting cover, some freckles sometimes strong, modern shirt with green maroquined grief back, threaded and decorated with golden imperial eagles, bordered case. LARGELY ORIGINAL EDITION. Some autograph corrections in ink in the text. CRITICAL COLLECTION TO THE EUROPEAN POWERS BUT WITHOUT COMPLAISANCE TO NAPOLEON I: "Since [Buonaparte] has decreed the freedom of the press, it is because he believes himself worthy of hearing the truth, and I put him here to the test.... "Marie-Gabriel Masuyer brings together here a long foreword and three essays, of a liberal tendency, in which he essentially questions the means of preserving internal and external peace in Europe according to principles of social justice. The third essay, devoted more specifically to the case of Poland, had originally appeared in 1807 under the veil of anonymity. EXAMPLE OF A DEDICATION TO NAPOLEON I, with an autograph letter signed by the author and dated from his property at L'Étoile near Lons-le-Saunier on 22 June 1815 - the very day of the emperor's abdication: ".... I have the honour to present to Your Majesty with the attached memoirs my petition to the Legislative Corps and my formal wish that you will be willing to contribute to the admission as the basis of laws to intervene as organic parts of our Constitutions the provisions that I thought I should propose in these memoirs as being the only ones that can reconcile all the passions, all the interests that make war on us inside and outside. I am strongly convinced that we will not have any tranquility, any internal stability unless our social system rests on these bases... YOU HAVE NOT FOUND THE LANGUAGE OF ADULATION which so often degrades princes and perverts their judgment, but I hope that you will recognize in it that of a citizen who sincerely desires the reign of principles, the happiness of the fatherland, of the prince, and the stability of the social order... "(3/4 p. grand in-folio). DOCTOR AND POLITICAL TESTIMONY, MARIE-GABRIEL MASUYER (1761-1849) had Burgundian and Jura ties. He served for a time in the armies of the Republic, then settled in Strasbourg where he taught chemistry and pharmacy at the School of Health before creating the chair of medical chemistry and toxicology at the Faculty of Medicine. He was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine in 1825 and published several works in his scientific specialties. Like his brother, a member of the Legislature and then of the Convention, he also dealt with political issues and professed republican opinions in various publications. HIS GIRL VALÉRIE MASUYER, GIRL OF JOSEPHINE, SERVED QUEEN HORTENSE AS LADY OF HONOR AND READER from 1830 to 1837. She left famous memories. Provenance: Dominique de Villepin (ex-libris vignette).
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