dernier, &c. [
Paris: de l’imprimerie de
Lottin l’ainé, &
Lottin de St-Germain,
m.dcc.lxxxix
.] [1789]
63 leaves, caption title, printers’ imprint at the end, signed
Veytard.
Veytard, député from Paris at the Constituante, was a curé. In 1789 he was appointed clerk of the court to the commune of Paris.
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16.
Observations sur les Systemes de Turgot et Necker.
[BRISSOT
de WARVILLE, Jacques Pierre.]
Observations d’un Républicain sur les différens systemes d’administrations provinciales, particulièrement sur ceux de MM.
Turgot & Necker, & sur le bien qu’on peut en espérer dans les gouvernemens monarchiques . . .
Without name of place or printer, n.d.
28 leaves in eights, signatures H-K
8, D
4, pp. [113]-[168] of Des administrations provinciales, mémoire presenté au roi par Turgot (actually written by Dupont de Nemours).
The entry was omitted by Jefferson on the fly-leaf and has been added by another hand.
A number of the works of Brissot de Warville appear in this catalogue.
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17.
Declaration des droits par Condorcet.
[CONDORCET,
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de.]
Declaration des Droits, traduite de l’
anglois, avec l’original a coté.
A
Londres,
1789.
45 leaves including the half-title,
French and
English text on opposite pages.
On the title-page Jefferson has written the name of the author:
par le Marquis de Condorcet, and has changed
traduite de l’Anglois to read:
traduite en Anglois, adding
par le Docteur Gem.
Jefferson had three copies of this work, see no. 2442 and no. 2568. On this copy he has inserted on the title-page, in ink, the name of the author and of the translator, and has also corrected
the printed mis-statement,
traduite de l’Anglois. The title as amended by him reads:
Declaration des Droits, par le Marquis de Condorcet traduite en Anglois, par le Docteur Gem avec l’original a cote.
Jefferson sent a copy of this Declaration des Droits to James Madison, writing to him from Paris on January 12, 1789: “
. . . every body here is trying their hand at forming declarations of rights. as something of that kind is going on with you
also, I send you two specimens from hence. the one is by our friend of whom I have just spoken
[La Fayette]
. you will see that it contains the essential principles of ours accomodated as much as could be to the actual state of things
here. the other is from a very sensible man, a pure theorist, of the sect called the economists, of which Turgot was considered
the head. the former is adapted to the existing abuses; the latter goes to those possible as well as to those existing . .
.
”
Bibliographers usually attribute the translation to Philip Mazzei; Jefferson appears to be the only person to attribute it
to Dr. Gem, an English surgeon whom Mazzei met in London, and who was a close friend of Jefferson in France. A letter from
Jefferson, dated from New York April 4, 1790, immediately after his return to the United States, addressed to Dr. Gem at Bordeaux,
opens: “
In bidding adieu, my dear Doctor, to the country which united our residence, I find the loss of your society & instructive
conversation among the leading circumstances of regret. be assured that I feel it most sensibly, and accept my warm acknolegements
for all your kindnesses & services to me and my family while at Paris . . .
”
In the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress are three pages of prescriptions in manuscript, inscribed by Jefferson:
Prescription. Gem’s.
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