Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un senateur allemand et un républicain francais. Rapporté litteralement par le Professeur Taciturnus-Mémoriosus et traduit librement par un sans-culotte.

[GROUVELLE, Philippe-Antoine].

Published by [s.l, s.n., c .1794]., 1793

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8vo, pp. 47, [1] blank; clean and fresh throughout; uncut in recent red boards.First and seemingly only edition of this dialogue on the aftermath of the French revolution, attributed to the playwright, journalist, and diplomat Philippe-Antoine Grouvelle (1758-1806). While the 'senateur allemand' is instinctively hostile to the French revolution ('J'ai l'horreur du nouveau, je suis à genoux devant l'antiquité; et conséquemment je n'aime pas la révolution de France, qui est venue tout à coup abattre ma doctrine, bruler ma bibliothèque et me couper les vivres'). In his conversation with the French republican, the two explore the dangers of Pitt ('l'ennemi du genre humain'), the necessary of perpetual revolution (it will cease when 'nos ennemis cesseront d'être en contrerévolution'), and the irony of a German 'ville libre' forced to go to war with an enemy that is in the right.Grouville acted as secretary to the Prince de Condé, wrote a couple of coolly received plays, and became a keen revolutionary in 1789. In his role as secretary of the conseil exécutif provisoire, he was responsible for serving Louis XVI with his death sentence. He became the French Minister to Denmark in 1793, and served there until 1800. The present pamphlet may well, as suggested by the Danish national library, be printed in Copenhagen.OCLC records only two copies outside Continental Europe, at the BL and the Newberry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reponse a tout! Petit colloque entre un senateur allemand et un républicain francais. Rapporté litteralement par le Professeur Taciturnus-Mémoriosus et traduit librement par un sans-culotte.
• Publisher: [s.l, s.n., c .1794].
• Publication Date: 1793
• Binding: Hardcover