THOMAS (Antoine-Léonard) - Lot 92

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THOMAS (Antoine-Léonard) - Lot 92
THOMAS (Antoine-Léonard) Various works. Paris, s.n., 1761. In-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, coat of arms in the center, spine decorated with a repeated coat of arms, green title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (period binding). Collection especially composed, it seems, by the author to be offered to the duke of Choiseul of whom he was the private secretary. It opens with Jumonville, a poem about the death of this young French officer, Joseph Coulon de Villiers, sieur de Jumonville, murdered in America by the English on the orders of an officer promised to more glorious victories: George Washington, who will confess to be the murderer of this officer, which he will later deny (cf. Marcel Trudel, L'Affaire Jumonville, Quebec, PUL, 1953). It continues with the following 5 pieces: - Ode to M. Moreau de Séchelles, Minister of State. S.l., 1759. - Epistle to the People, work presented to the French Academy. Third edition. 1761. - In praise of Maurice Count of Saxe... Speech which won the prize of the French Academy in 1759. Paris, Veuve Bernard Brunet, 1761. - Éloge de Henri François Daguesseau, chancelier de France... Speech which won the prize of the Académie françoise in 1760. Paris, Veuve Bernard Brunet, 1760. - In praise of René Duguay-Trouin, Lieutenant General of the Naval Armies... Speech which won the prize of the Académie françoise in 1761. Paris, Veuve Bernard Brunet, 1761. Beautiful volume bound with the arms and coat of arms of the Duke of Choiseul. Étienne-François de Choiseul (1719-1785), count of Stainville and later duke of Choiseul, was one of the great ministers of Louis XV, appointed to the Foreign Affairs (1758-1761), to the War Ministry (1761-1770) and to the Navy (1761-1766). A friend of the Encyclopedists and parliamentarians, he supported the Parliament in its opposition to the royal power, which provoked his fall in 1770 and his exile in his castle of Chanteloup. The general title seems to have been printed especially at the time for this copy, it replaces the title of the poem Jumonville. Fine restoration to the upper cover.
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