DAMIENS. - GROSLEY (Pierre-Jean). Reflections on the Attack - Lot 36

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DAMIENS. - GROSLEY (Pierre-Jean). Reflections on the Attack - Lot 36
DAMIENS. - GROSLEY (Pierre-Jean). Reflections on the Attack committed on January 5 against the life of the King. S.l.n.d. [dated March 5, 1757]. - Letter from a patriot, in which the facts are reported which prove that the author of the attempt on the King's life has accomplices, and the manner in which his trial is being conducted. S.l.n.d. [dated March 11, 1757]. - Declaration of war against the authors of the attempted parricide on the King's person. S.l.n.d. [dated March 22, 1757]. Together 3 works in one volume in-12, marbled calf, cold fillet, ornamented spine, red title page, red edges (Binding of the 18th century). Collection of 3 pamphlets related to the trial of Damiens, each in original edition. These libels, by Pierre-Jean Grosley (1718-1785) and printed clandestinely, were suppressed and condemned to fire by a ruling of the Parliament of Paris on March 30, 1757 (see Pierre Rétat, L'Attentat de Damiens, 1979). The Jesuits, suspected of involvement in the attack, are attacked with the greatest firmness: But what is more frightful, & which must make the Sovereigns tremble on their Thrones as long as they let this monstrous Society subsist in their States; it is that it is by principle that it taught the subjects to kill their Kings (Letter..., p. 31). Interesting copy constituted at the time by an amateur who added at the end 5 pieces in handwritten verse violently criticizing the Clergy and the Jesuits. Small lack at one of the spines.
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