Author: [LA REYNIE DE LA BRUYERE (Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Louis)]:
Title: The Livre Rouge, or Red Book: Being a List of Secret Pensions, paid out of the Public Treasure of France; and containing Characters of the Persons Pensioned, Anecdotes of their Lives, an Account of their Services, and Observations tending to shew the Reasons for which the Pensions were granted. Transited from the Eighth Paris Edition.
Description: London: Printed for G. Kearsley..., 1790. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 127 mms, pp. [ii], 163 [164 blank], printed throughout in red, contemporary grey wrappers (soiled); front wrapper detached. A translation of the first two "livraisons" of La Reynie's work and of the third and subsequent "livraisons" of the imitation. La Reynie de la Bruyere (1759 - 1807) was training in a seminary in Angouleme but left it in 1784 after having seduced a girl making her confession. He was one of those who "stormed the Bastille," and by his own account was instrumental in inciting the citizens of Paris to rebellion. This work purports to be an accurate government account of the way the French government treated its more privileged citizens, but the work seems to be largely fictional. Two editions were published in Dublin the same year. Goldsmiths 14375. Kress B.1928.

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