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188 - [Pamphlets]. A collection of 14 pre-revolutionary pamphlets.
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[Pamphlets]. A collection of 14 pre-revolutionary pamphlets. 8vo, modern blank covers. 1/ The Appearance of Cardinal Alberoni. No place, no date [August 1788]. Slight water-stain. 14 pp. A reprint of a work originally published in 1771, and ‘may be regarded as a prediction of what is happening today [...] the spectre of Cardinal Alberoni was able to read the future, and was mistaken only with regard to the nobility’. 2/ Michel Blanchard. Letter from Michel Blanchard, Magister of the village of Moivieux, to His Grace Georges Le Franc de Pompignan, Archbishop of Vienne. No place, no date [August 1788]. 12 pp. This pamphlet follows the meeting of the Assembly of Vizilles (21 July 1788), which drafted a proclamation calling for the convening of the Estates-General. It responds to a pastoral instruction from the Bishop of Vienne on the obedience due to sovereigns. 3/ On the influence of provincial administrations on morals and public opinion. Published by Philantropie, and sold in Paris by the Marchands de Nouveautés, 1788. A small tear in the paper on one leaf, resulting in the loss of two letters. [1 f.], 46 pp. First edition. Very rare. 4/ On the Estates-General and their convocation; with a Chronology of the Estates-General, by Savaron… Published in Villefranche, and available in Paris from the Booksellers of Novelties, 1788. [2 ff.], 76 pp. First edition. The full title continues as follows: ‘and an analysis of the famous Estates-General assembled at Tours, which includes the order and names of the Deputies by Bailiwick, etc. A new outline followed by a list of the best printed or manuscript works that provide information on the National Assemblies and the Estates-General, and the places where they are to be found.’ The author provides a historical overview, recalling the procedures for their appointment and convening. He reviews those held from 1467 up to the last ones in 1614. 5/ (Cardinal Fleury). Letter [– Second / Third] Letter, to the Council of Louis XVI. Second edition. Amsterdam, 1788. 29 pp., [1 f.]; 22 pp.; 32 pp. An apocryphal text, dated ‘Champs-Élysées, June 1788’, given that Cardinal de Fleury, a minister of Louis XV, had died in 1743. 6/ Grand Bailiwick of Rennes. No place, no date [1788]. [1 f.], 19 pp. First edition. A scathing pamphlet signed by J.F. Grippe-sou against Bertrand, Intendant of Rennes, who was in charge of recruitment for the Grand Bailiwick. 7/ Letter from M. de Lamoignon to M***, Councillor of State. No place, no date [1788] – 4 pp. First edition. A curious pamphlet purportedly written by Lamoignon to explain how he had, ‘in less than eight days’, appointed his protégé Albert as a Councillor of State and a member of the Council of Dispatches. 8/ Letter from the Pope to the King. Sent from Rome on 7 September 1788. No place, no date [1788]. 7 pp. First edition. Apocryphal text: ‘This letter is in the style of the papal chancery; but it was never sealed with the Fisherman’s ring […] This letter is in truth a fictitious letter’, reports the *Correspondance littéraire secrète* in the year of its publication. Rare. 9/ Letters to Mr Necker, Minister of State and Director-General of Finance. No place, no date [1788]. 27 pp. First edition. The first letter, dated 5 August, follows Necker’s publication of his *De l’importance des opinions religieuses*. The second, dated 28 August 1788, follows his recall from the ministry by Louis XVI. They are signed B***. 10/ [Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit]. *Le Tribun du peuple, au peuple*. Paris, 1788. 42 pp. First edition. An interesting text written by a former lieutenant in charge of criminal cases at the Presidium of Rennes and a supporter of absolute monarchy. 11/ Mon coup-d’œil. No place, no date [1788]. 32 pp. First edition. This pamphlet follows on from the ‘lit de justice’ of 8 May 1788 (reform of the Parliament of Paris, dissolution of the provincial parliaments, creation of the ‘grands bailliages’ and the ‘cour plénière’). 12/ The King and his Ministers, Dialogues. No place, no date [1788]. 48 pp. First edition. A fictional dialogue between Louis XVI and Loménie de Brienne on absolute monarchy and the king’s lack of legitimacy to exercise legislative power unchallenged. 13/ Mr Tignel. *Le Triomphe de la Basoche*, a poem in five cantos and in verse. Paris: Published by booksellers specialising in novelties, 1788. 42 pp. First edition. 14/ Abbé Vélin. Apology for the Plenary Court… No place, no date [1788]. 15 pp. First edition. As the Parliament of Paris was too turbulent, it was exiled to Troyes in 1787. On 8 May 1788, it was summoned to Versailles for a ‘lit de justice’, and was reduced to a single ‘grand chamber’ and a ‘chamber of enquiries’, all other parliaments having been abolished. In their place, the ‘grands bailliages’ were established to administer justice. The right of registration was entrusted to a plenary court. Vélin was the pseudonym of Jean-Philippe Garran de Coulon, who published under this name. His pamphlet, full of sarcasm and mockery, made a great impression on the public.
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