Beaux Traits de Dévouement, d'attachement conjugal, de piété, de courage, de magnitude, etc., qui ont eu lieu pendant la Révolution Française, avec les discours les plus remarquables, prononcés en diverses circonstances; le plaidoyer en faveur de Louis XVI; le testament du roi-martyr; la lettre de Marie-Antoinette à madame Elisabeth, et un grand nombre d'anecdotes peu connues

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Paris: E. Cretté, 1828. Seconde Édition, revue avec soin, corrigée et augmentée. Two volumes; 12mo (17.5cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with black gilt inlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],367; [4],358pp.; engraved frontispieces, six leaves of plates. Extremities rather scuffed, both spine crowns a bit pulled with cracking along spine edges of Vol. II, though both volumes internally sound, retaining publisher's advertisements. With contemporary prize inscription to both front free endpaper versos to a young Charles Ditte, "témoignage de satisfaction." Collection of moral and historical anecdotes, especially, and sympathetically, pertaining to the fate of the royal family during the Revolution. The frontispiece of Vol. I especially notable for its depiction of a woman shooting a pistol into a crowd of pitch-fork and saber-wielding rowdies. N° de ref. del artículo 9028

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