Charles Gabriel Frédéric CHRISTIN, [VOLTAIRE] François-Marie AROUET DE VOLTAIRE
Dissertation sur l'établissement de l'abbaye de S. Claude, ses chroniques, ses légendes, ses chartes, ses usurpations, et sur les droits des habitans de cette terre[Dissertation on the establishment of the Abbey of St Claude, its chronicles, its legends, its charters, its usurpations, and the rights of the inhabitants of this land]
s. n.|Neuchâtel 1772|12 x 20.2 cm|5 volumes reliés en 1
First edition (cf. Quérard II, 200. Perrod, 711).
Contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine with five raised bands gilt with gilt fillets, gilt compartments decorated with floral tools, gilt rolls to the headcaps partly rubbed, covers framed with a double blind-tooled fillet, some surface wear and losses to the boards, gilt fillet to the turn-ins, worn corners, red edges.
The sole, uncommon edition of this defence of the serfs of the Abbey of Saint-Claude in their dispute with their lord.
Christin (1744–1799) acted as their counsel before the Parlement of Besançon.
Despite his intervention (and that of Voltaire – see below), the sixteen canons of Saint-Claude, heir
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