MALLET DU PAN, JacquesBiblio.com
Mercure Britannique; ou notices historiques et critiques sur les affaires du tems
18003706045London: De l'Imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury 1800. Five volumes octavo; a very attractive set in contemporary full tree calf spines gilt with double coloured labels. <p><p>Printed in London for a continental audience Mercure Britannique presents a range of political essays reports and despatches reporting on affairs unfolding in Europe during a period of unprecedented change.</p> <p>The closing years of the eighteenth century saw the consolidation of Napoleon's political power and militarisation of the French Republic. The author Jacques Mallet du Pan was vigorously opposed to the revolution in France and wrote from the relative safety of Switzerland using a London publisher to print his material for continental distribution indeed the imprint boasts that these volumes were available in Hamburg Vienna Berlin Leipzig and Venice. Mallet du Pan championed the cause of émigrés and courted the conservative anti-revolutionary governments of continental Europe. As both a Royalist and champion of the aristocracy he idealised the British constitution as a preferred model for the future of Europe. Accordingly much of the Mercure Britannique is concerned with developments in the British political scene.</p> <p>Of particular military interest is the detailed examination of the Napoleonic Egyptian campaign including a public letter by Nelson followed by a list of British ships in the line Battle of the Nile. Likewise the extent of the Russian empire is probed with a view to expansion prescient given the future course of the war.</p> </p> . De l'Imprimerie de W., et C. Spilsbury unknown
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