Relation concernant les évènemens qui sont arrivés à Thomas Martin, laboureur à Gallardon, en Beauce, dans les premiers mois de 1816. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de plusieurs lettres du sieur Martin écrites en 1821 sur de nouvelles apparitions, avec un exposé de plusieurs autres qui lui sont arrivées en 1830.

Edition with some parts in first edition. Written under the pseudonym By M. S***, former magistrate.
Bradel binding in blue half cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillets, havana morocco title label, covers with extensive restored lacks preserved.
Important historical anecdote that caused a sensation at the time and subsequently had numerous repercussions on religious, historical and spiritualist convictions throughout the century.
Thomas Martin, an uneducated peasant, received a visit from the archangel Raphael who ordered him to report to King Louis XVIII that his nephew Louis XVII was alive, along with various other prophecies and advice for restoring the Kingdom's balance in the aftermath of the Hundred Days and on the eve of the July Revolution, then the insurrection of 1832.
This story of a peasant received by the King of France and confirming his legitimacy based on a divine apparition represents a true reversal of divine power, here delegated to the humblest representative of the people but aimed at a return to the Ancien Régime and recognition of ecclesiastical power.
This adventure, whose first edition is contemporary with the event, never ceased to be enriched with new anecdotes, as evidenced by this new edition augmented with the latest apparitions, more than 15 years after the facts.
But beyond the astonishing, yet seemingly truthful, fact of a king agreeing to receive advice from a laborer, the Thomas Martin affair would also serve as a source for the Naundorfists and adherents of an occult science preparing to make its appearance in society: spiritualism.