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Jean Dusaulx, Voyage à Barège et dans les Hautes Pyrénées, m - Lot 251
Jean Dusaulx, Voyage à Barège et dans les Hautes Pyrénées, made in 1788 by J. Dusaulx. In Paris, from the Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1796. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-8 of 347 pp. ; (4)-207-55 pp., blond half-basane, smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets (bound about 1820). First edition. In 1788, Villeneuve, treasurer of the city of Paris, friend and fellow student of Jean Dusaulx, was afflicted with an ankylosis for which he had been ordered to the waters of Barèges. Dusaulx, who was suffering from rheumatism, made the journey with his friend. He was enthusiastic about the discovery of the Pyrenees: always on excursion with two natural scientists, Pasumot and Saint-Amand, he spread at the same time many benefits on the poor populations. Besides the fact that the inhabitants thanked him for the publication of his work, they paid him back after his death in 1799, at the foot of the Marboré, not far from Mount Perdu des Honneurs Funèbres. Followed by : Preface to my translation of Juvénal, printed by Didot le jeune, in 1796. The author begins his Warning as follows: "It would be difficult, at first glance, to judge what relationship the following play may have with the text of my Pyrenees. One will feel it if one remembers both the beginning of the Introduction, and the place of the first chapter, where I say: "Two very distinct eras, that of my Journey and that of the Revolution, are now one in my mind. I see myself at this moment suspended on abysses in the midst of the collapsed mountains, and rolling randomly among the rubble of a vast empire shaken by anarchy. "This quotation alone is enough to indicate that the writing of my Journey called the play in question after it, and this to note its anecdotes, to develop its ideas and feelings". Headdress flattened; the two table sheets were placed between the two texts. Perret, 1464.
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