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[French Revolution] [Estates-General] A composite collection…
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[French Revolution] [Estates-General] A composite collection of 98 documents relating to the Estates-General and the early days of the French Revolution. 1789–1790. 3 in-8 volumes titled ‘Affaires du Temps’, in contemporary calfskin, with decorated ribbed spines. Some wear to the leather.
An exceptional collection of 98 pamphlets, proclamations, speeches, addresses, minutes and contemporary documents compiled at the time, constituting a veritable documentary chronicle of the Estates-General and the early months of the French Revolution.
First volume:
1/ Proclamation by His Grace the Bishop and Count of Tréguier ordering public prayers for the restoration of order and peace within the country. Paris, Goujon, undated. 16 pp.
2/ Summary of the Life or General Confession of the Count of Mirabeau (...). Marrakesh, Imperial Press, 1789. 64 pp.
3/ Letter to the electors of the Count of Mirabeau. 79 pp.
4/ Address to the Provinces or An Examination of the Proceedings of the National Assembly. No place, 1789. 31 pp.
5/ Complaints by the Provinces against the actions of their Deputies. In the Provinces, 1790. 72 pp.
6/ The Abuse of Words. No place, no date. 14 pp.
7/ Open Your Eyes, Then. No place, no date. 78 pp.
8/ To Mr Thouret, Deputy to the Estates-General and President of the Assembly. Address. Neuchâtel, 1789. 24 pp.
9/ Fewer Words and More Action; an Address to the National Assembly, Without Flattery. 1789. 58 pp.
10/ The People’s Torch. 14 pp.
11/ Jam Satis. 29 pp.
12/ The Taking of the Annonciades. No place, no date. 20 pp.
13/ Reply by the Author of The Taking of the Annonciades. No place, no date. 8 pp.
14/ Prospectus for a new newspaper by the authors of *The Taking of the Annonciades*. 1789. 24 pp.
15/ *Metempsychosis*. 4 handwritten folios. Undated.
16/ *Tuesday’s Lunch* or *The Truth on the Cheap*. No place, no date. 7 pp.
17/ Wednesday’s Lunch, or The Truth on the Cheap. No place, no date. 8 pp.
18/ Thursday’s Lunch, or The Truth on the Cheap. No place, no date. 7 pp.
19/ Friday’s Lunch or The Cheap Truth. No place, no date. 8 pp.
20/ Saturday’s Lunch or The Cheap Truth. No place, no date. 7 pp.
21/ Sunday’s Lunch or The Cheap Truth. Place and date unknown. 7 pp.
22/ Monday’s Lunch, or The Cheap Truth. Place and date unknown. 7 pp.
23/ The Day of the Fools. A tragic-political-comic play. Place unknown, 1790. 86 pp.
Second volume:
1/ Letter to the King. Paris, 16 April 1789. 13 pp.
2/ To the King and the Fatherland. 1789. 16 pp.
3/ BOISSY (Clément de). Louis XVI the Benefactor. No place, no date. 8 pp.
4/ BOISSY (Clément de). Louis XVI the Benefactor, Part Two. No place, no date. 9 pp.
5/ BOISSY (Clément de). Louis XVI the Benefactor, Part Three. No place, no date. 9 pp.
6/ Patriotic Reflections by a Magistrate on the Conduct of the Estates-General. No place, no date. 56 pp.
7/ To the Estates-General. A New Proposal on How to Conduct the Grain Trade Usefully in France (...). No place, no date. 5 pp.
8/ CORMERÉ (Baron de). Observations to the Electors of the City and Viscounty of Paris (...). No place, no date. 17 pp.
9/ Reflections presented to the Estates-General (...). No place, no date. 14 pp.
10/ A Citizen’s Proposal concerning the regulations of 28 March last (...). No place, no date. 7 pp.
11/ Observations on the regulations for the city of Paris. 1789. 8 pp.
12/ Observations on the regulations governing the convening of the Paris assembly, made before Parliament. No place, no date. 21 pp.
13/ Observations on the drawbacks of the voting system proposed by the Regulations (...). No place, no date. 7 pp.
14/ In the name of the Fatherland, Sir, please deign to read this before forming an opinion. Paris, 20 April 1789. 16 pp.
15/ LAMERVILLE (Count of). Speech delivered to the Assembly of the Nobility of the Viscounty of Paris. 1789. 32 pp.
16/ SANOIS (Count of). Address to the Assembly of the Nobility. Paris, 30 April 1789. 16 pp.
17/ Memorandum of the Nobility (...). No place, no date. 16 pp.
18/ Memorandum and Instructions from the Gentlemen of the Nobility of the First Department sitting at the Châtelet. Paris, Desaint, undated. 14 pp.
19/ Extract from the Minutes of the Assembly of the Nobility of Paris. Paris, Delaguette, undated.
20/ Protests and Deliberations of the Clergy and Nobility of Brittany of 17 and 18 April 1789. 18 pp.
21/ Account of what took place at the Assembly of Electors of the City of Paris on 25 June 1789. 13 pp.
22/ On the National Session of 25 June; and Letter to the Count of Artois. IV, 12 pp.
23/ News from Versailles. From the evening of Thursday 25 June 1789. 16 pp.
24/ Letter and Reflections by a citizen written at Versailles, 27 June 1789. 14 pp.
25/ Further news from Versailles, 30 June 1789. 7 pp.
26/ To the noble citizens of the city of Paris. No place, no date. 8 pp.
27/ MOUNIER. Report of the committee responsible for drafting the Constitution. No place, no date. 16 pp.
28/ Revolutions in Paris. July 1789. 31 pp.
29/ Collection of Decrees and Resolutions issued by the Committees of the Paris Town Hall. 1789. 80 pp.
30/ Deliberation of the citizens of the city of Grenoble of 15 July 1789. 8 pp.
31/ Extract from the deliberations of the Assembly of the Three Estates of the city of Lyon. 8 pp.
32/ Resolutions of Rouen. 17 July 1789. 7 pp.
33/ Further disaster in Paris. 22 July 1789. 8 pp.
34/ Rouen’s patriotism towards the citizens of Paris. 1789. 8 pp.
35/ Minutes of the sessions of the Assembly of Representatives of the Commune of Paris. No place, no date. 23 pp.
36/ Continuation of the Minutes (...). Paris, Lottin, 1789. 15 pp.
37/ Establishment of a Committee of twelve deputies. 1789. 8 pp.
38/ Continuation of the Paris Courier to Versailles. The Great Constitution. 7 August 1789. 8 pp.
39/ Assembly of Representatives of the Commune of Paris. 11 August 1789. 7 pp.
40/ CALONNE. Memorandum. Joy in the Provinces at the News of the Fifth. Paris, 1789. 8 pp.
41/ BERGASSE. Report of the Constitutional Committee (...). Paris, Baudoin, 1789. 64 pp.
42/ BLONDE (M.). Letter to Monsieur Agier. Paris, Baudouin, 1789. 14 pp.
43/ Speech by the Civil Lieutenant of the Châtelet in Paris. Paris, Laclotte, n.d. 7 pp.
44/ Extract from a letter to Mr de Laborde, Member of Parliament. Paris, Desaint, 1789. 4 pp.
Volume Three:
1/ Extract from the Register of Deliberations of the Town and Community of Vannes. No place, no date. 15 pp.
2/ Protest by the Order of the Nobility of Brittany. No place, no date. 8 pp.
3/ Memorandum addressed to the King by the Orders of the Church and the Nobility, sitting in the Estates of Brittany. No place, 1789. 16 pp.
4/ Letter written to the King by the Estates of the Province of Dauphiné (...). 2 pp.
5/ Letter written to M. de Necker by the Estates of the Province of Dauphiné. 2 pp.
6/ Resolution of the Municipal Assembly of the Town and Community of Rennes. 1789. 7 pp.
7/ Extract from the Registers of the Municipal Assembly of the Town and Community of Rennes. 1789. 14 pp.
8/ Lorraine. 7 pp.
9/ Decree and Petitions of the Parliament of Toulouse concerning the Estates of Languedoc. 1789. 15 pp.
10/ Declaration by the nobility of Roussillon. 1789. 4 pp.
11/ Letter from the Parliament of Bordeaux. 1789. 8 pp.
12/ Extract from the register of deliberations of the city and county of Nantes. 12 pp.
13/ Decree of the Parliament of Franche-Comté. 1789. 19 pp.
14/ Letter of summons, addressed to each of the Deputies to the Estates of Burgundy. 27 January 1789. 4 pp.
15/ Letter from the Members of the Parliament of Brittany. 8 pp.
16/ On the discount fund. 1789. 15 pp.
17/ Letter from the nobility of Provence. 4 pp.
18/ Decree of the Parliament of Franche-Comté dated 31 January 1789. 3 pp.
19/ Letter written from Rennes on 31 January 1789. 11 pp.
20/ Account of the events that took place in Brittany. 31 pp.
21/ CALONNE. Letter addressed to the King on 9 February 1789. London, Spilsbury, 1789. 296 pp.
22/ Resolution of the notables, burghers and other inhabitants forming the Third Estate of the town of Vesoul. 9 February 1789. 22 pp.
23/ Speech by one of the Gentlemen of Bordeaux (...). Tuesday 10 February 1789. 16 pp.
24/ Memorandum presented to the King by the deputies of the Order of the Church and the nobility of Brittany on 14 February 1789. 15 pp.
25/ Minutes of the sessions of the Third Estate of Brittany. From 14 to 21 February 1789. 56 pp.
26/ Decree issued by the Officers of the Châtelet and the Presidial Court of Paris on 22 February 1789. 48 pp.
27/ Extract from the registers of Parliament dated 27 February 1789. 2 pp.
28/ Judgement of the Third Estate of Lower Limousin, followed by the Declaration made by M. de Chiniac. 1789. 16 pp.
29/ Copy of the minutes of the riot that took place in Aix on 25 March 1789. 15 pp.
30/ Speech delivered by one of the gentlemen of the Order of the Nobility at one of its sessions held in Auxerre on 28 March last. 48 pp.
31/ Extract from the minutes of the Interim Commission of the Estates of the Dauphiné. 31 March 1789. 7 pp.
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