Author: DAUNOU, Pierre Claude François
Title: Essai sur les garanties individuelles que réclame l'état actuel de la société.
Description: Paris: chex Foulon et Comp., 1819. [4], 245p. Quarter light brown calf, marbled paper-covered boards, sprinkled blue-edged leaves. Very good condition. ***** Historian, legislator and idéologue, Daunou opposed Louis XVI's trial and protested against the proscription of the Girondins. He was the chief author of the constitution of 1795 and founder of the Institut National. After Bonaparte's coup in 1799, he also participated in the writing of the constitution of the year VIII (Dec. 1799) from which Napoleon excised many liberal provisions. O. Connelly, Historical dictionary of Napoleonic France, 1799-1815, p.145.

Keywords: French, Revolution, Napoleon, France, antiquarian


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