Autograph letter signed.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, French politician, philosopher and economist (1809-1865).

Published by Brussels, 2. VIII. 1858.

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8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. Written in exile to a friend about publishing his memoir, the written defence against his prosecution and the seizure of his famous work "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church". Proudhon mentions that the Minister of Justice, Adolphe Cr�mieux (1796-1880), informed him that he had five days from the date he received his sentence to prepare his appeal; he hopes soon to be able to put an end to this "comedy": "Mon M�moire est sous presse [.] Cr�mieux [.] m'�crit entr'autres choses ceci: que j'ai cinq jours, � dater du jour de la signification de l'arr�t, pour former mon opposition [.] J'ai dit que je voulois finir cette com�die [�]". - Refusing to make any changes to his memoir apart from the preface and the occasional note, pointing out that it was written for any eventuality, be it good or bad, peacee or war, discussing the prospect of an amnesty following the Italian War, which would greatly please him but would not change his attitude towards the government nor his influential book, and voicing his distaste for the "arbitrary fantasies of our imperial world": "Quant-au m�moire m�me, aucun chang[e]ment n'y sera fait: Les �v�nements ne modifieront que l'avis au lecteur, tout au plus quelque note. Mon m�moire est fait pour toutes les �ventualit�s, bonnes et mauvaises, pacifiques ou guerri�res. Ce n'est pas tout. Voici que les journaux parlent d'amnestie pour le 15 ao�t, applicable surtout aux d�lits de presse. Si le hasard faisait que j'y fuisse compris � coup s�r je m'en f�liciterais, pour ma personne et pour tous les miens: mais cela ne changerait pas la position quant au livre et quant au syst�me suivi par la magistrature et le gouvernement [.] Il faut que dans tous les cas je confirme, par ma d�fense, l'effet produit par le livre, et que je d�go�te un peu notre monde imp�rial de ses fantaisies d'arbitraire [.]". - A small hole and tear towards the end of the first page, hardly affecting legibility. - Correspondance VIII, 132-134.

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Brussels, 2. VIII. 1858.

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