Lot n° 311
Estimation :
100 - 150
EUR
P.N. Gautier, Dictionary of the French Constitution and Gove - Lot 311
P.N. Gautier, Dictionary of the French Constitution and Government, containing the names of all new Public Officers, the forms of their election or appointment, their functions, their salary, their costume, etc. The new civil, political, military, ecclesiastical, judicial and financial institutions; the laws of each of the branches of state administration; the rights and duties of citizens; the definition of the new terms most commonly used, some of which should no longer be used, etc. A Paris, Chez Guillaume junior, 1792. 2 parts in 1 strong vol. in-8 paperback of XIV-256 pp.; (2)-280 pp., title piece handwritten in ink of the time. Rare first edition. "It is not to enlightened men that I dedicate this work; it is beneath their enlightenment; I have undertaken it for my own instruction, and I dedicate it to those who, like me, need to learn about the rights that give them, the duties that their new quality as citizens imposes on them, and who want to know the laws under which they live. I have reflected on these laws as reason dictates, but in pointing out their defects, I have not provoked disobedience to them. To criticize is not to offend. I have freely expressed my opinion against those of our civil and political institutions which I have found to be vicious, and in this I believe I have fulfilled one of my duties. Some articles of this Dictionary were printed before the National Assembly had pronounced on the objects they deal with, nevertheless they do not contradict what it has done; such are among others the article Cordon, where one finds the reasons which have since determined it to abolish the orders of chivalry, the article Marc d'argent, a condition of eligibility which it has likewise abolished, and for which it has substituted those which one will see at the word Representative. She ended her career by giving back to the Jews the rights of citizenship, which the Jewish article demands for them. Her successors began theirs by removing from the King th
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue