blée-Générale, par J.-P. Brissot de Warville, représentant de la Commune; suivis du projet du plan de municipalité. A
Paris: chez
Lottin de S.-Germain,
août, 1789.
2 parts in 1 with separate signatures, 14 and 26 leaves; 2 leaves partly unopened; imprint on the title and at the end.
Not in Quérard.
Tourneux 5323.
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, 1754-1793, député de Paris at the Legislative and the Convention, and later Minister of the Interior. He was executed as
a Girondin in 1793. Brissot de Warville knew Jefferson and visited the United States; several works by him occur in this catalogue.
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6.
Memoire de M. de la Luzerne.
Mémoire des Ministres du Roi, adressé à l’Assemblée Nationale, le 24 octobre 1789. A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1789.
6 leaves, uncut, caption title, imprint at the end. Signed by l’Archevêque de Bordeaux, le M.
al de Beauvais, le C.
te de Montmorin, le C.
te de la Luzerne, Necker, le C.
te de Saint-Priest, l’ancien Archevêque de Vienne, le C.
te de la Tour du Pin.
The M. de la Luzerne, to whom Jefferson ascribes this
Mémoire, was César Henri, Comte de La Luzerne, 1737-1799, French statesman, and the elder brother of Jefferson’s friend, Anne-César, Chevalier de
La Luzerne, at that time Ambassador in England. For another
Mémoire by La Luzerne see no. 2556.
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7. LOUIS XVI.
Discours prononcé par le Roi, à l’Assemblée Nationale, le 4 février 1790. [A
Bordeaux: chez
Michel Racle, imprimeur de I’intendance,
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
1790.]
6 leaves, the last a blank; caption title, imprint at the end, all blank margins cut off.
This Discours is numbered 7 in ink on the first page in the same hand, probably the binder, as the other tracts. It is not included by Jefferson in his list of the tracts contained in the volume [see above].
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8.
Rapport aux negocians de Bordeaux.
Rapport fait a une assemblée de négocians et capitalistes de Bordeaux, imprimé à la demande du commerce, et par ordre de la
Chambre, au profit des pauvres de la Société Philanthropique.
A
Bordeaux: de l’imprimerie de
P. Phillippot, imprimeur de la Chambre de Commerce,
m.dcc.lxxxx
. [1790.]
12 leaves including the first blank, printed on blue paper. The Avant-Propos is dated from Bordeaux, le 29 mars, 1790.
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[8
a.] PIGOTT,
Robert.
Liberté de la Presse. [
Paris:] [de l’imprimerie de Veuve
Herissant.] n.d.
2 leaves, printed in double columns; caption title, printer’s imprint at the end.
At the beginning:
Très-respectueuse Adresse a l’Assemblée Nationale de France, présentée par Robert Pigot, Ecuyer Anglois.
At the end:
L’impression de cette Adresse a été ordonnée par l’Assemblée Nationale.
This pamphlet is not called for in Jefferson’s list, and is not serially numbered on the title in ink; as are all the other tracts in the volume. It was possibly inserted at
a later date.
Robert Pigott, 1736-1794, English food and dress reformer, left England for the continent on the outbreak of the war with the American
colonies. He was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution.
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