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Memoires de m. caron de beaumarchais: ecuyer conseiller-secretaire du roi lieutenant-general des chasses au bailliage & capitainerie de la Varenne du Louvre grande venerie & fauconnerie de France accuse de corruption de juge contre M. Goezman conseiller de grand-chambre au Parlement de Paris accuse de subornation & de faux Mme. Goezman & le sieur Bertrand accuses le sieur Marin gazetier de France & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard conseiller d'ambassade assignes comme temoins
1775AQ21599Paris: s.n. 1775. 499pp 1. Bound with: BEAUMARCHAIS Pierre-Augustin Caron de. Memoire pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Paris. s.n. 1775. xiv 1 16-143pp 1. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf morocco lettering-piece spine richly gilt. Rubbed chipping to lettering-piece loss and worming to head of spine joints split boards held by cords only. Marbled endpapers later bookplates of Roger Senhouse and John Fowles to FEP inked ownership inscription to title page occasional light spotting. The memoirs of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 1732-1799 French polymath dramatist and political revolutionary. An early French supporter of the American revolution Beaumarchais is predominantly remembered for his successful lobbying of the French government to supply the revolutionaries with both arms and financial support. Roger Senhouse 1889-1970 English publisher translator and member of the Bloomsbury group. John Fowles 1926-2005 English novelist whose notable works include The Magus 1965 and The French Lieutenant's Woman 1969. . [s.n.] hardcover
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