1791. JACQUES LE SUEUR. Les Masques Arraches

(Conspiracy in France and Belgium in the weeks following the fall of the Bastille)

JACQUES LE SUEUR, "epion honoraire de la Police de Paris & ci-devant employe du ministere de France en qualite de clairvoyant dans les Pays-Bas austrichiens"

(pseudonym of the French playwright Alexandre-Louis-Bertrand Robineau, who also used the name Beaunoir)

LES MASQUES ARRACHES Histoires Secretes des Revolutions et Contre Revolutons de Brabant et Liege

Vol 1 & Vol 2 bound together, 216 & 235 pages.
duodecimo 5 x 3-1/4",
early hardcover 3/4 calf hard boards, spine leather mostly worn away but original 5 raised bands strong and intact
Interesting multiline ink inscription in a tiny neat hand on one rear free end-paper

1791, Anvers. Nouvelle Edition
(augmented with the addition of salacious events omitted in the first 1790 publication.)

Recounts an invasion of Belgium months after the fall of the Bastille, and events in France, described as the result of a conspiracy of secret societies.

RARE .............................................................................................................................. $ 475.