Author: (MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de).
Title: Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat. Ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778.
Description: Hambourg, 1782.2 volumes in 1. Modern half vellum. XIV,323; 203 pp.First edition. - The French political thinker and statesman Mirabeau (1749-1791) went to the United Provinces, where he lived by writing hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for sedition and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the Dutch police, sent to France and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. His Lettres de cachet exhibits an accurate knowledge of French constitutional history, skillfully marshaled to demonstrate that the system of lettres de cachet was not only philosophically unjust but constitutionally illegal. - (Small brown stain at top of first 70 pages).
Keywords: Europe France
Title: Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'etat. Ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778.
Description: Hambourg, 1782.2 volumes in 1. Modern half vellum. XIV,323; 203 pp.First edition. - The French political thinker and statesman Mirabeau (1749-1791) went to the United Provinces, where he lived by writing hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for sedition and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the Dutch police, sent to France and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. His Lettres de cachet exhibits an accurate knowledge of French constitutional history, skillfully marshaled to demonstrate that the system of lettres de cachet was not only philosophically unjust but constitutionally illegal. - (Small brown stain at top of first 70 pages).
Keywords: Europe France
Price: EUR 137.50 = appr. US$ 149.44 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 11107
- Book number: 11107