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[HISTORY]. [GUDIN DE LA BRENELLERIE, Paul Philipe (1738-1812)]. Aux Manes de Louis XV, et des grands hommes qui ont vécu sous son règne, ou Essai sur

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[HISTORY]. [GUDIN DE LA BRENELLERIE, Paul Philipe (1738-1812)]. Aux Manes de Louis XV, et des grands hommes qui ont vécu sous son règne, ou Essai sur les progrès des arts et de l'esprit humain, sous le règne de Louis XV. [Zweibrücken:] Aux Deux Points: à l'Imprimerie Ducale, 1776. 8vos. Two volumes in one. xvi, 248; [2], 186 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with black leather, gilt triple-rule borders on covers, marbled edges. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING LOUIS XV'S REIGN, WITH MANY REFERENCES TO AMERICA, CANADA, LOUISIANA, ETC. 

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Some chipping o spine near top, some wear scuffing to binding, hinges just starting, some intermittent browning, lower corner of A2 of the second volume torn, with loss of a few letters. A good, wide-margined copy. 

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This uncommon work was printed at the celebrated Imprimerie Ducale de Deux-Ponts after the author was denied the right to publish it in France. Gudin de la Brenellerie, poet, dramatist and historian, was educated in Geneva, and was acquainted with Voltaire and Beaumarchais, and he edited the works of the latter author. He wrote a supplement to Rousseau's Social Contract (1790), in which he discusses the political and social repercussions of the French Revolution and asserted that private property and ownership are the basis of a healthy society. Cioranescu 32828. Qurard, III, 496. 

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