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25 - BABEUF (Gracchus). ON THE SYSTEM OF DEPOPULATION, or The Lif…
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BABEUF (Gracchus). ON THE SYSTEM OF DEPOPULATION, or The Life and Crimes of Carrier; his Trial, and that of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes: with research and political observations on the general aims of the Decemvirate in devising this system; on its principal connection with the War in the Vendée; and on the plan for its application to all parts of the Republic. Paris, Franklin’s Press, Year 3 of the Republic [1794]. 8½ in-8, ochre-coloured chagrin cloth with corner pieces, smooth spine divided by gilt bands, gilt title (later binding); frontispiece portrait, 194 pages [i.e. 192 pages; pages 152 to 155 are missing], including half-title, title page, table of contents and errata. A small corner tear on the last 6 leaves, not affecting the text; the title page is discoloured with the portrait faded; slight water stain in the upper corner of the last leaves. RARE FIRST EDITION of this text written by Gracchus Babeuf, in which he condemns the policies of Robespierre’s Republican armies, and in particular the suppression of the counter-Revolution carried out in the Vendée and in Nantes by Carrier, whom he describes as a perpetrator of genocide. Engraved PORTRAIT of Jean-Baptiste CARRIER (1756–1794) with a quatrain by Voltaire taken from *La Henriade*. A GOOD COPY, complete with the portrait and all its leaves, preserved in a binding dating from the early second half of the 19th century. ¶ Martin & Walter, “Catalogue de l’histoire de France”, I-950 - Lemière, “Bibliography of the Counter-Revolution in the Western Provinces or the Wars of the Vendée and the Chouannerie: 1793–1815–1832”, 17.
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