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(FRANKLIN, Benjamin) FAUCHET, [Claude] M. l’Abbé
Éloge Civique de Benjamin Franklin,
Prononcé, le 21 Juillet 1790, dans la Rotonde, au Nom de la Commune de Paris.
Publisher: Paris, J.-R. Lottin... G.L. Bailly... Vict. Desenne... J. Cussac, 1790
Stock code: 41919
Price: £350 Currency Conversion
First Edition. Important elogy delivered by the Revolutionary divine, formerly tutor to the children of the Marquis de Choiseul, preacher to the King, and Abbot of Montfort-Lacarre. Dismissed for his radical opinions, Fauchet became a popular speaker in the Parisian sections. He was one of the leaders of the attack on the Bastille, but within four years he had been swept away by the tide of the Terror, guillotined for support of the Caen Federalists and supposed complicity in Charlotte Corday's murder of Marat. Here he speaks to Franklin's philosophical attainments and the political beliefs that had led to his fostering of close connections between America and France. In an appendix Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, physicist, "Frankliniste" improver of lightning-conductors, and later President of the Académie des Sciences, who was an intimate member of Franklin's Passy côterie, discusses of his scientific attainments.
Octavo. (215 × 130mm). Untrimmed in later wraps. Title page and first and last leaves somewhat browned, but overall very good. The wraps a little worn and separating at the upper panel.
