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All CollectionsFirst edition of the French translation, based on the sixth English edition.
Copies listed in the CCF only at the BnF, Dijon, and Rouen libraries.
Our copy is preserved in its original state, in contemporary marbled paper wrappers.
The only edition of this curious political pamphlet, seemingly without any real connection to an English original, which proposes to reorganize Europe through joint—particularly military—control by the four principal continental powers (Austria, France, Spain, and Prussia) over all the others, in order to ensure peace and balance across the continent.
These prophetic, if still utopian, reflections are preceded by an analysis of Europe’s situation since the Seven Years’ War.