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BOURBON-LEBLANC (Gabriel). Statistique de la législation constitutionnelle de France en 1788, ou Maximes fondamentales de la monarchie française. Paris, Delaunay, Pélicier, Dentu, and Renaudière, 1815. In-8, (4)-30-(2 blanks)-48 pp. in long-grained red morocco, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated with fleur-de-lis and flowers au naturel, fine gilt filleted frieze framing the boards with gilt coat of arms in the center, gilt edges, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges; tiny tear and faint spotting on the second board (period binding). FIRST EDITION. REPENTANT REVOLUTIONARY AND PSEUDO-ARISTOCRAT, GABRIEL DE BOURBON-LEBLANC (1775-1862) was born of unknown father and mother, receiving at first the name of Gabriel Leblanc. After studying law, he was employed by the Committee of Public of Public Safety as head of the office of military legislation, but, at the fall of Robespierre, he turned and published reactionary political pamphlets reactionary political pamphlets which made him condemned by the justice of the Directory. Under the Consulate and the Empire, he taught law and political economy political economy at the Athénée des étrangers, and began to publish works on these subjects. In 1795, he had begun to that he was a bastard son of Paul de Bourbon-Busset, but was sued by the family and lost, adopting the name "Bourbon-Leblanc". name of "Bourbon-Leblanc". He also made himself known by supporting two successive false dolphins (false Louis XVII), Mathurin Bruneau in 1817 and Karl Wilhelm Naundorff in the 1830s. BINDING IN MAROQUIN WITH THE ARMS OF THE DUKE OF ANGOULÊME (composition of several irons, absent from OHR). Elder son of Charles X, the Duke of Angoulême Louis-Antoine de Bourbon (1775-1844) was dauphin of France from 1824 to the Revolution of 1830. Emigrated from 1789 to 1814, he was made colonel general of the cuirassiers and grand admiral of France upon his return. In 1830, he resigned his rights to the Crown and went into exile with his father and his wife. He died in Goritz in 1836.
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