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1841WRCLIT65395Paris: H.-L. Delloye 1841. 64422pp. 12mo. Quarter forest green morocco and boards. Frontis. Foxing ink name effaced from top margin of half-title bookseller's stamp on rear binder's endsheet; a good copy in an attractive period binding. First edition in this format of these two works of considerable significance in the context of French romanticism. Epilogue by "Guillemon." VICAIRE I:170. TALVART & PLACE BALLANCHE 3F. H.-L. Delloye hardcover books
1841S11031Paris:: H.-L. Delloye 1841. 1841. 8vo. 442 6 36 4 30 6 44 4 250 54 pp. Occasional scattered foxing not affecting legibility. Quarter gilt-stamped red leather over red marbled paper-backed boards all edges marbled; cover edges and corners gently rubbed. Near fine. According to a pencil note on the free rear endpaper the ink signature and inscription below is that of Alexis Guignard Comte de Saint-Priest 1805-51 a French diplomat and historian of the Academie Francais. This work contains two stories: Antigone and L'Homme Sans Nom. Antigone a re-working of Sophocles' original story achieved popularity in France because it was seen as a reflection of the suffering of Louis XIV's daughter the Duchesse d'Angpuleme but Ballanche's actual muse was Juliette Recamier a beautiful and brilliant Parisian who hosted a rather famous salon. In her Ballanche perceived "a kindred unhappiness." Her "incapacity for happiness he argued is a sign of the awareness of a fallen creature of its divine origin and its nostalgia for a celestial home" McCalla 49. He saw her beauty as a reflection of her moral perfection. L'Homme Sans Nom centers on a "nameless man" who is on the council that votes for the regicide of Louis XIV in 1793; wary of inflaming political public opinion because of the recent assassination of the Duc de Berry by a Bonapartist Ballanche limited the first 1820 edition of the story to a run of 100 copies. He intended his new work "as advice for the King and a small circle of political leaders" rather than the general populace" McCalla 78. Ballanche was a French philosopher who favored a view of history in which mankind achieves "progress through ordeals." Essentially "a past epoch could possess its own rightness and legitimacy even as it had lost the right to continue" which he described in his work Palingenesie Wikipedia. "He is considered by some French critics as a great writer and profound thinker but by others his writings are regarded as mystical and obscure" Thomas 253. McCalla Arthur. A Romantic Historiosophy: the Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Leiden The Netherlands: Brill 1998; Thomas J. "Ballanche Pierre-Simon." Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology Part One. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1871. H.-L. Delloye, 1841. hardcover books
1912S11534Paris:: Honore Champion 1912. 1912. Sm. 8vo. 269 pp. Frontis. port. index. Maroon buckram. Very good. Honore Champion, 1912. hardcover books
1903S11032Paris:: Alphonse Picard 1903. 1903. 8vo. 8 370 1 pp. Frontispiece three plates errata; very faint foxing to frontispiece and title-page occasional marginalia. Later maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine. Near fine. Alphonse Picard, 1903. hardcover books