Barere de Vieuzac,Bertrand De la pensee du gouvernement London 1803
Barère de Vieuzac, Bertrand. De la pensée du gouvernement. Imprimé à Geveve [sic]; réimprimé en France, l'an cinquième de la Republique Française; et maintenant à Londres: chez Deboffe; Debrett; et Johnson, n.d. (ca. 1803). 223 pp. 8vo, disbound. First edition printed in England; first published in Geneva, and then in Paris, in 1797. A treatise on government by one of the most radical and unscrupulous members of the Nation Convention during the French Revolution; Barère allied himself with Robespierre during the Terror, but changed sides in July, 1794, and drew up the report outlawing his colleague. In later years he served as a secret agent for Napoleon, and he subsequently posed as a royalist, but the Bourbons exiled him as a regicide. The ESTC (1990) lists two copies of this printing (MRu; NjP), and the NUC adds two others (CLSU, OClW); both sources give the date as ca. 1797, but it is clear from the typography, particularly the use of a modern "s," that this is a few years too early. There was no English translation. In very good condition.
£150
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