MARAT (Jean-Paul). Le Publiciste parisien, journal politique - Lot 122

MARAT (Jean-Paul). Le Publiciste parisien, journal politique, libre et impartial; by a Society of Patriots. [Then]: L'Ami du peuple, ou le Publiciste parisien. Paris, 1789-1791. Approximately 530 in-8 pamphlets, the majority in 4 volumes bound in contemporary half-basane and marbled basane, the others, stapled or unbound, being preserved in two different modern folders. A very important and extremely rare collection of around 530 issues of the famous revolutionary newspaper created and published by Marat. The newspaper appeared from September 12, 1789 to September 21, 1792 in 685 issues. Our set includes the first 5 issues, published under the title Le Publiciste parisien, and those from n°6 to n°596, which follow on almost regularly (around 45 issues are missing, not including n°41, 43, 44, 46 to 50 and 58 to 69, which were never published, according to Tourneux, n°10320). Marat covered revolutionary news: the horrible project "to blow up the arsenal and bury part of the capital under its ruins" (n°299), the "treacherous tartuffery of General Motier" (n°270), the "means of saving the fatherland and preventing three million citizens from having their throats slit" (n°314), the "project of the counter-revolutionary assembly to rehabilitate Louis Capet the deceiver, perjurer, traitor and conspirator" (n°519), the "seven thousand brigands assembled at midnight at the Champs-Élisées to kidnap the royal family" (n°481), etc. The tone is often provocative and violent: "Dénonciation des citoyens de la section du Théâtre français, tous gangrénés d'aristocratie et suppôts de l'ancien régime" (no. 494) and "Fin de liste des aristocrates pourris de la section du Théâtre-Français" (no. 496). Some foxing, a few stains, repaired tear on first page of n°550. One bound volume lacks a headpiece, and rubs or scuffs to bindings.