Mirabeau contre Cagliostro et Lavater
.
iii. MIRABEAU,
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de.
Lettre du Comte de Mirabeau à * * * sur M. M. de Cagliostro et Lavater . . . à
Berlin: chez
François de Lagarde,
1786.
First Edition. 8vo. 32 leaves: A-C
8, *
8, the last a blank; the last signature is for the Appendix, with separate pagination, dated from
Berlin, 25 Mars 1786.
Not in Brunet.
Not in Graesse.
Not in Quérard.
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, French statesman.
Count Alessandro Cagliostro [i.e. Guiseppe
[
sic
] Balsamo], 1743-1795, Italian alchemist and impostor. He was implicated in 1785 in the affair of the Diamond Necklace, q.v.,
chapter 23.
Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1741-1801, Swiss poet and physiognomist, author of
Pontius Pilatus
, published in 1782, discussed in this work.
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Correspondence secrette sur la Prusse.
iv.
Correspondence secrète, concernant la Constitution de la Prusse, dupuis la règne de Frédéric-Guillaume II.
Potsdam,
1788.
8vo. No copy of this work was located for collation.
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Mémoire d’un François sorti de l’esclavage des Barbaresques par Follié.
v. FOLLIE,
Louis Guillaume.
Mémoire d’un François qui sort de l’Esclavage. Par M. Follie, officier d’administration dans les colonies. A
Amsterdam et se trouve à
Paris: chez
Laporte,
1785.
First Edition. No copy was located for collation.
Quérard III, page 148.
Not in Gay.
Rouard de Card, page 34.
Jefferson bought a copy of this book, listed in his undated manuscript as a separate entry, with the price
1-4.
Louis Guillaume Follie, b. 1761, fl. 1792, French traveller and colonial administrator, embarked on the
Deux-Amis at the end of 1783, and was shipwrecked at Cape Noun, where he and his fellow passengers were taken by the Moors and kept
as slaves for more than a year.
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Eloge de l’Abbé de Mably par Brizard.
vi. BRIZARD,
Gabriel, abbé.
Eloge historique de l’abbé de Mably, discours qui a partagé le prix au jugement de l’Academie royale des Inscriptions et belles-lettres
en 1787, par M. l’abbé Brizard.
Paris:
Demonville,
1787.
First Edition. 8vo. Portrait by St. Aubin. No copy of this separate edition was located for collation.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the abbé Brizard to whom the former wrote from Paris, on December 4, 1787: “
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur de remercier Monsieur de Brizard de l’excellente ouvrage sur feu l’Abbé Mably qu’il a eu la
bonté de lui envoyer. L’eloge est vraiment digne de cet auteur celebre, et estimable autant que celebre. ses ouvrages y sont
analysés et characterisés de sorte á faire voir que l’analyste en feroit d’excellentes dans le meme genre s’il le voudroit.
M. Jefferson prie très ardemment que sa patrie pourroit remplir toutes les esperances que Monsieur Brizard a la bonté d’en
former . . .
”
Gabriel Brizard, 1730-1793, French man of letters and juriconsulte. This
Discours divided the prize with that of Lévesque at the Académie Française. It is reprinted in the collected works of Mably.
For the Abbé de Mably see chapter 24.
These six tracts are listed together, without price, on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
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