Author: (MASSON , Charles François Philibert).
Title: Lettres d'un Français a un Allemand, servant de réponse a Mr. De Kotzebue, et de supplément aux Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Suivies d'un précis historique de la déportation et de l'exil de l'auteur.
Description: Basle, Decker, Coblence, Lassaul, 1802.Old wrappers. IX,328 pp.Charles François Philibert Masson (1762-1807) was a member of the Institut de France. He started his career as an apprentice watchmaker in Neuchâtel, but he was more interested in the arts and traveled to Russia where he became the tutor of the children of Count Nikolaj Ivanovitsj Saltykov, the Minister of War. The count made him his major domus. He made himself popular in the élite of Saint Petersburg through his wit, his taste in literature and his conversation and was popular in the great houses of Saint Petersburg and at court but the tyrannical Czar Paul I expelled him from Russia as an outspoken symphatiser of the French Revolution. He lived in Germany for a while before returning to France where he published his Mémoires secrets sur la Russie.Cf. Catalogue Russica M554.

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