Sergent BELIER
La culotte, chanson érotique, sur différens sujets, et singulièrement sur la Révolution françoise, par le sieur Bélier, Sergent de la garde-Nationale de Versailles
Chez Girardin|à Paris 1790|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
The rare first edition, decorated with an aquatint frontispiece signed J. B. Huet and dated 1790. The work itself is undated; the date we have given comes from the frontispiece.
Bound in red half-cloth from the late 19th century. Gilt title. Rubbing to headcaps, corners and edges.
Satirical and humorous song composed of 8-verse stanzas drawing for the first part from Greco-Latin mythology and subsequently from the French Revolution, with stanzas about the French Guards, the high Clergy, the fugitives, Versailles... Each verse concluding with a humorous note involving the famous breeches.
Bound in red half-cloth from the late 19th century. Gilt title. Rubbing to headcaps, corners and edges.
Satirical and humorous song composed of 8-verse stanzas drawing for the first part from Greco-Latin mythology and subsequently from the French Revolution, with stanzas about the French Guards, the high Clergy, the fugitives, Versailles... Each verse concluding with a humorous note involving the famous breeches.
€350