LOGOGRAPHE (Le), national newspaper. [Paris], Baudoin, Impri - Lot 183

LOGOGRAPHE (Le), national newspaper. [Paris], Baudoin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée nationale, 1791-1792. Together 316 issues in 3 volumes in-folio, half vellum with small corners, untrimmed (Period binding). Hatin, pp. 132-134. - Tourneux, n°10663. Second and third complete series of Le Logographe, in 316 issues, from n°1 (October 2, 1791) to n°316 (August 17, 1792). Edited by Le Hodey, the Logographe was one of the most important newspapers of the Revolution: it recorded all the discussions of the National Assembly, based on shorthand notes taken by members of the Société Logographique, who had obtained a place opposite the rostrum from which they could accurately record all the words and expressions of the speakers. It was in this same lodge, known as the Logographe, that Louis XVI and his family took refuge after the capture of the Tuileries on August 10, 1792. Stenography, as it is practiced today in our Parliaments, did not yet exist, but various innovators ingeniously recorded the debates of the Assembly using abbreviations and agreed signs. Le Hodey, always on the lookout for progress, seems to have made use of these rudimentary procedures for his own purposes, and contacted the Société Logographique, which undertook to provide him with a faithful copy of all the speeches, drafts, decrees, letters, petitions and memoirs read or proposed at the sessions of the first legislature (Tourneux). Without the first series (158 issues published from April 27 to October 1, 1791), nor the last issue of the periodical (n°317), of which only two proofs are known. Rousseurs, wetness in some issues.