BARRUEL (Augustin, Abbé): Abrégé des Mémoires... - Lot 287 - Richard Maison de ventes

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BARRUEL (Augustin, Abbé): Abrégé des Mémoires... - Lot 287 - Richard Maison de ventes
BARRUEL (Augustin, Abbé): Abrégé des Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire du Jacobinisme. Hamburg, Fauche, 1801. 2 volumes. Bound with: PROYART (Abbé): Louis XVI dethroned before being king, or table of the necessary causes of the French Revolution & of the shaking of all thrones. London, 1800. 9.5 by 16.5 cm. XVI-301-XXX; X-284-144 pages. Half red posterior basane, smooth spine. Cuts a little worn, modest binding, bookseller's stamps on title pages. This abridged edition of BARRUEL's work, published the same year as the complete edition, here in an edition published 3 years after the original, finds its interest in particular in the 30 pages at the end of volume 1, relating articles of the Montlhy review, following the publication of the Memoirs, and in the abridged edition of the work of the Abbé PROYART which is joined to our copy. BARRUEL's thesis, supporting the major role of Freemasonry and the Illuminati of Bavaria in the outbreak of the French Revolution, is a model of conspiracy explanation. As such, it had a huge impact
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