J. Peltier - Dernier tableau de Paris ou récit historique...

Last tableau of Paris or historical narrative of the revolution of August 10, 1792, by J. Peltier: Brussels, at B. Le Francq, 1793. 2 volumes in-8° respectively of 402 pages and 432 pages. Half-leather binding and marbled paper. Spine with 4 raised bands, compartments ornamented with a title piece and a folding Paris plate (8e). Illustrated with two frontispieces. Third edition. Fresh interior. A famous counter-revolutionary work written by the French journalist and pamphleteer Jean-Gabriel Peltier (1760-1825) published in London at the author’s or in Brussels. A former contributor to the royalist satirical newspaper Les Actes des Apôtres, Peltier had to flee France after the bloody uprising of August 10, 1792 (which saw the massacre of the Swiss Guards and the fall of the constitutional monarchy). Having taken refuge in England, he immediately published this text to denounce the violent drift of the Revolutio

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