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Paris: Baudouin, Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif. Rare Report of the Famous "Solar Affair" Eude, Jean-Francois [1759-1841]. Rapport du Proces Solar, Concernant l'Eleve Sourd et Muet de l'Abbe de l'Epee. [Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur du Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif, 1792]. 54 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in original patterned wrappers, bottom edge untrimmed. Light toning, occasional light foxing, ink annotations to title page and p. 29, minor corrections to a few other pages. 10-1/4" x 15-1/2" (unfolded, 5-1/4" x 4" folded) manuscript leaf, a list in docket format of services rendered by Eude, laid-in. $1,500. * Only edition. In 1776, a philanthropist and prominent advocate for the deaf, Charles-Michel de l'Epee, took in a deaf and mute child who had been abandoned since 1773. L'Epee came to believe that this child was in fact Joseph de Lafontaine, Count of Solar, who had supposedly died in 1774. He accused Solar's mother of conspiring with a man named Cazeaux to abandon the child. In 1781, the case was heard in the Chatelet; Cazeaux was cleared of wrongdoing but the child was declared to be the Count of Solar and restored to his title. Solar's sister appealed in 1792. The appeal, heard before Jean-Francois Eude, resulted in the child being stripped of his titles. Eude's report lists the facts of the earlier case and discusses evidence in great detail. According to the preface, it was published to dispel controversy over the verdict. The case is interesting not only for its legal aspects, but the insight it provides into the perception and treatment of the deaf in French society. OCLC locates 4 copies of this rare title, 2 in North America (Yale Medical School, Gallaudet University). Seller Inventory # 78767
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Title: Rapport du Proces Solar Concernant l'Eleve ...
Publication Date: 1792
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Paris: Baudouin, Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif
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