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L’espion du boulevard du temple.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 131, as above.
[MAYEUR DE SAINT-PAUL,
François Marie.]
Le Chroniqueur Désœuvré, ou L’Espion du Boulevard du Temple, contenant les annales scandaleuses & véridiques des Directeurs,
Acteurs & Saltinbanques du Boulevard, avec un résumé de leur vie & moeurs par ordre chronologique . . .
Deuxieme édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée par l’auteur d’un ouvrage qui paraîtra incessamment sur les grands spectacles.
Londres:
1782.
PN2636 .P3 M4
8vo. 88 leaves; in prose, interspersed with verse.
Entered by Jefferson, with the same title,
L’espion du boulevard du temple. 8
vo.
in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
9.0.
François Marie Mayeur de Saint-Paul, 1758-1818, French actor, author and theater director. He came to the United States in 1789 to play in comedy but returned
to France very shortly.
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Memoires secrets d’un Observateur en France. tome 22 to 30.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 119, no. 22, as above, but reading
tome 22me. au 30me. 12mo 9 v.
[MOUFLE D’ANGERVILLE.]
Mémoires Secrets pour servir a l’Histoire de la République des Lettres en France, depuis
mdcclxii, jusqu’a nos jours; ou Journal d’un Observateur, contenant les Analyses des Pieces de Théâtre qui ont paru durant cet Intervalle;
les Relations des Assemblées Littéraires; les Notices des Livres nouveaux, clandestins, prohibés; les Pieces fugitives, rares
ou manuscrites, en prose ou en vers; les Vaudevilles sur la Cour; les Anecdotes & Bon Mots; les Eloges des Savans, des Artistes,
des Hommes de Lettres morts, &c. &c. &c. Tome Vingt-Deuxieme [-Trentieme] . . .
A
Londres: chez
John Adamson,
mdcclxxxiii-
mdcclxxxvi.
[1783-86.]
PQ273 .B3
First Edition. 9 vol. 12mo, the number of leaves varying from 148 to 192.
Barbier III, 253.
Hatin, page 66.
The complete set of the
Mémoires Secrets contains 36 volumes in duodecimo, embracing the years 1762 to 1787, but published from 1777 to 1789. It was started by L.
Petit de Bachaumont, and after his death in 1771 continued until 1779 by Pidansat de Mairobert [q.v.]. The nine volumes in
Jefferson’s library were all edited by Moufle d’Angerville.
There are numerous references to the United States and its affairs throughout these volumes. Jefferson, who arrived in Paris
in August 1784, is not mentioned, though there are a number of references to Benjamin Franklin, and a few to George Washington.
In volume 29, pages 86 and 87, is the epitaph in Latin to the Abbé de Mably written by Jefferson in his copy of the
Principes de Morale
[no. 2401].
An account of a large number of the books purchased by Jefferson at this period is to be found in these volumes. For a full
description of the work, see Hatin as above.
For another work by
Moufle D’Angerville (d. 1794), see no. 207.
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