By the Author of the Serment du Jeu de Paume

Jean-Joseph MOUNIER

Recherches sur les causes qui ont empêché les François de devenir libres, et sur les moyens qui leur restent pour acquérir la liberté. - Appel au tribunal de l'opinion publique. Du rapport de M. Chabroud, et du décret rendu par l'Assemblée nationale le 2 octobre 1790. Examen du mémoire du Duc d'Orléans, et du plaidoyer du comte de Mirabeau, et nouveaux éclaircissemens sur les crimes du 5 et du 6 octobre 1789

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[Research into the Causes that Prevented the French from Becoming Free, and on the Means Still Available to Them for Acquiring Liberty. – Appeal to the Tribunal of Public Opinion. On the Report by M. Chabroud and the Decree Issued by the National Assembly on 2 October 1790. Examination of the Memoir of the Duke of Orléans and of the Plea of the Count of Mirabeau, with New Clarifications on the Crimes of 5 and 6 October 1789]

Gattey • Maire de Mars • Bergeret|Geneva • Paris • Lyon • Bordeaux 1792|12.4 x 20.4 cm|2 volumes reliés

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⬨ 89780

Rare first edition (cf. Martin & Walter 25 395).

Contemporary half-sheepskin bindings, the spines smooth and gilt-ruled in double fillets, boards covered in rose-papered pasteboard, red sheepskin lettering-pieces and green volume labels, yellow edges; corners rubbed, bindings of the period.

Some rubbing and faint staining to the spines and boards with small losses to the rose paper, a tiny hole at the head of the spine of the first volume, scattered foxing and a few marks to the edges, not affecting the text.

Bound at the end of volume II is another work by the same author: "Appel au tribunal de l'opinion publique. Du rapport de M. Chabroud, et du décret rendu par l'Assemblée nationale le 2 octobre 1790. Examen du mémoire du Duc d'Orléans, et du plaidoyer du comte de Mirabeau, et nouveaux éclaircissemens sur les crimes du 5 et du 6 octobre 1789", printed in Geneva, s.n., 1790 (title, ij pp., pp. 3–352). First edition as well, and uncommon, of this refutation of the tendentious report delivered by Chabroud, president of the Constituent Assembly, concerning the riots of 5 and 6 August 1789.

A deputy of the Third Estate at the Estates-General, Mounier (1758–1806) proposed the Serment du Jeu de Paume (20 June 1789), for which he drafted the text.

He was among the founders of the group advocating an English-style monarchy (later known as the Monarchiens). He contributed to the drafting of the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme and served as president of the Constituent Assembly. Discouraged by the increasingly radical course of the Revolution, he resigned in November 1789 and went into exile in Switzerland in May 1790. There he published this work, in which he attacks Siéyès and denounces the Rousseauist utopia of the Contrat social.