Deux jours de condamnation à mort. Précédé d'une lettre de Louis Blanc

Rare edition, partly first, as it contains for the first time a letter by Louis Blanc, following the edition published by Bry aîné in 1847.

Corner creases to the wrappers, small tears to the spine.

Second edition of Barbès's text, partly first edition as it is here augmented by a letter from Louis Blanc, published a few weeks after Barbès and Louis Blanc were sentenced to deportation by the High Court of Bourges for their role in the events of 15 May 1848. The first edition of Barbès's text had been published in Paris by Bry aîné.

Corner creases to the wrappers, small tears to the spine.

Barbès recounts the two days in July 1839 during which, having been sentenced to death by the Court of Peers for his part in the insurrection of the Société des saisons, he awaited execution before receiving an eleventh-hour pardon, secured in particular through Victor Hugo's intervention with Louis-Philippe. Written in 1847 while Barbès was imprisoned in Nîmes, the text was reprinted in the aftermath of the demonstration of 15 May 1848, when protesters invaded the National Assembly. It was then prefaced by a letter from Louis Blanc, by then in exile in London, addressed to Barbès after both men had been sentenced to deportation by the High Court of Bourges in April 1849.

The publisher of the pamphlet, the Propagande démocratique et sociale, had been founded by Gabriel de Mortillet, a former member of Barbès's Club de la révolution and the future founder of French prehistoric archaeology, who entrusted its management to Jules Ballard.

A rare intertwined testimony by two leading figures of 1848, printed and circulated through a militant network that was itself soon to face repression and exile.