""last Painting Of Paris" Or Historical Account Of The Revolution Of August 10, 1792, By J. Peltier"
Rare and very captivating story by L. Peltier (Jean Gabriel 1760-1825) "Last Picture of Paris or Historical Story of the Revolution of August 10, 1792", the causes which produced it, the Events which preceded it, and crimes that followed it. By J. Pettier, from Paris, Author of the Acts of the Apostles, Political correspondence, etc... Third edition revised and corrected in London at l'Aureur, Hôtel la Sablonière, Leicester-Fields, and is in Brussels at B . Le Francq, Printer-Bookseller, rue de la Magdelaine. April 1794. In two large volumes with generous margins in glossy paperback paperback (waiting cover) manuscript paper title; with two frontispiece portraits (Louis XVI and Louis XVIII), a fold-out map of the Tuileries district. Beautiful complete and precise decorative copy of the reissue of this work originally published in London in 1792. The famous pamphleteer Jean-Gabriel Pertier (died in 1825), who founded, with Rivarol, Les Actes des Apùotres, describes with force the ins and outs of the bloody day of August 10, 1792, which put an end to the old monarchy in France "My Agony of thirty-eight hours", by Jourgniac de Saint-éard (Fierro 744) appears in the appendix of volume 1 with the "Letter to the French nobility" and "De la vie politique..... De La Fayette" by Rivarol...A real piece full of history, for fans of this troubled period