Bonaparte, and the French people under his consulate

[Schlabrendorf, Gustav, Graf von]

Published by Tipper and Richards, Leadenhall-Street, London, 1804

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First edition in English, 8vo, pp. [6], 379; original chocolate brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; minor rubbing but very good and sound. Schlabrendorf (1750-1824) spent more than 17 months in prison during the Reign of Terror where he was often visited by his friend Mary Wollstonecraft. Later, he wrote several works critical of Napoleon Bonaparte, including this, his best-known work, and published anonymously after the manuscript was smuggled out of France by another friend, the musician Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who it through publication. "The book was a sensation with readers because of the way in which, as early as 1804, it exposed the brutality of the authoritarian Napoleonic tyranny, even before the relaunch of his régime as the French Empire in May 1804. Between the book's appearance during 1804 and Napoleon's fall ten years later, von Schlabrendorf's warnings proved prescient. In the characteristic phraseology of von Schlabrendorf's biographer, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, von Schlabrendorf's trenchant opinions were "like a shining meteor in a politically gloomy sky of that time" (Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # 67016

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Title: Bonaparte, and the French people under his ...

Publisher: Tipper and Richards, Leadenhall-Street, London

Publication Date: 1804

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition