2 vol. in 1. 8vo. in fours. Vol. I, 143 leaves; vol. II, 121 leaves; the first 2 leaves in the first volume have the publisher’s
advertisements.
Jefferson may have bought his copy from
Dufief, to whom he wrote from Washington on January 9, 1800: “
I am much obliged to you for thinking of me when you got the copies of Rabaut and [name obscured]
Mayer . . .”
This book is the first on the list of missing books sent by Jefferson to
Milligan, on March 28, 1815, after the sale and before the delivery of his library to Congress, with a request that Milligan “
try to get and bring on”.
A copy was purchased by Milligan on April 7, price $2.50, and billed to Jefferson with other books on July 13, 1815.
This work frequently has a place on Jefferson’s recommended reading lists.
Jean Paul Rabaut Saint Étienne, 1743-1793, French Huguenot patriot and author, was a native of Nîmes; he met his death by execution after having been proscribed.
The first French edition of this work was published in Paris in 1792.
James White, d. 1799, English scholar and novelist. The first edition of this translation was published in London in 1792; editions were
printed in 1794 in New York and Boston as well as in Philadelphia.
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Essai sur la Revolution Française par Paganel.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 107, as above.
PAGANEL,
Pierre.
Essai historique et critique sur la Révolution Française, dédié à M. le comte de Lacépède, ministre d’Etat . . . Par M. P. Paganel . . .
Paris:
Plassan,
1810.
First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. No copy of this edition has been located for collation. According to a statement on the title-page of
the second edition, issued anonymously in 1815, the first edition was destroyed by order of the government:
La I
ère. Édition fut enlevée entière, par ordre de l’ancien gouvernement, en 1810, et détruite en totalité en 1813
. The
totalité was not complete and several copies escaped destruction.
Quérard VI, page 545.
Tourneux I, page 101.
Jefferson’s copy was a gift from the author, who wrote to him in November 1810: “Lorsque, par la foi d’un approbation ministérielle et d’une censure légale, je me décidai á faire imprimer mon essai historique
sur la revolution française je destinai le premier exemplaire qui sortiroit de l’empire a Monsieur jefferson à l’expresident
de sa république. j’attachois un grand prix et meme quelque gloire pour moi à le distingue parmi les chefs des gouvernemens
et des peuples . . .”
Jefferson replied from Monticello on April 15, 1811: “
I recieved through m(
~r)
Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. that it’s sale
should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. the friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested not to give
umbrage to it’s enemies . . . the perusal of this work has given me new views of the causes of failure in a revolution of
which I was a witness in it’s early part, & then augured well of it . . . the art of printing secures us against the retrogradation
of reason & information . . .
”
Pierre Paganel, 1745-1826, French historian.
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Revolution de France de Desodoards.
2. v. in 1.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 108, as above, but omitted 2. v. in 1.
FANTIN DES ODOARDS,
Antoine Etienne Nicolas.
Histoire Philosophique de la Révolution de France, Depuis la convocation des notables, par Louis XVI, jusqu’à la séparation
de la convention nationale; Par Antoine Fantin-Desodoards, citoyen français . . . Tome Premier [-Second].
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