Michel CHASTEL
Le second cri de la liberté dans les Alpes. Par Michel Chastel (du Mont Blanc). Ou discours prononcé à Chambéry le 23 thermidor an 5, en présence de Kellermann & des Autorités consultées, Suivi d'une Notice historique des persécutions dont ce discours a été le prétexte contre son auteur
[The Second Cry of Freedom in the Alps. By Michel Chastel (of Mont Blanc). Or, a speech delivered at Chambéry on 23 Thermidor, Year V, in the presence of Kellermann and the constituted authorities, followed by a Historical Notice of the persecutions for which this speech served as the pretext against its author]
De l'Imprimerie de Spineux|Carouge s. d. [1796]|12.5 x 19.8 cm|Broché
Rare first edition of this pamphlet printed at Carouge, Switzerland. Deschamps, 276, records 1789 as the date of the first book printed in that town (on the authority of a note by Ternaux).
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, within a modern blank temporary cover.
Title-page and final leaf slightly soiled, early marginal note in the right margin of p. 19, blue pencil annotations at the foot of pp. 10 & 11.
A text violently hostile to Kellermann (1735–1820) and to the French presence in the Alps.
Kellermann commanded the Army of the Alps while Bonaparte was conducting his Italian campaign.
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