Discours sur l'antique gouvernement de la monarchie française ; et sur la sagesse des rois qui l'ont fondé

First edition.
Later half black shagreen binding with corners, ca 1860. Spine with raised bands decorated with blind-tooled compartments and fillets on the bands.
This parliamentary prosecutor emigrated in 1791, he wrote several royalist and legitimist works during the revolutionary period, he would not return to Paris until the Restoration.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Du Plessis. A stamp below the date on the title page: Ex-libris Delaunay. Demonstration through history of the superiority of monarchical government and apology for Louis XVI. The author does not address the current constitution of France and its governance.