THE SORROWS OF VIRTUOUS LOUIS
[LOUIS XVI.]
Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs, suivi de détails peu connus sur son illustre famille.
Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].
32mo in 8s, pp. 110, [16]; woodcut arms of France to title, almanack printed within woodcut border; some light duststaining to title and final verso, else a very good copy; bound in contemporary tree-marbled sheep, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, green ribbon place-marker, sewn two-up on two sunken cords; rather worn but sound.
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Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs, suivi de détails peu connus sur son illustre famille.
A seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack, provincially printed at Lille in the wake of the Bourbon Restoration.
The brief preface suggests that this is the third such work published by Lefort, compiling contemporary documents – addresses and letters by Louis XVI, a speech by Pius VI decrying his execution, and a newspaper extract – woven together by a prose narrative giving an account of the Revolution and of Louis’s execution and arguing for his status as a martyr. The text is followed by an almanack, the ‘Calendrier pour l’an de grace M. DCCC. XVII.’ giving feast days and phases of the moon, eclipses and planets, and prefaced by details of the members of the House of Bourbon.
Not in OCLC or CCFr.
