Nicolas Bugnet 1749 1822 (1 results)
More imagesLa philosophie du Ruvarebohni, pays dont la decouverte semble d'un grand interet pour l'homme, ou recit dialogue des moyens par lequels les Ruvareheuxis, habitans de ce pays, ont ete conduits au vrai et solide bonheur; par feu P. J. J.S** et Nicolas Bugnet. [ As usual followed by':] Nicolas BUGNET, Catechisme social ou exposition familiere des principes poses par feu M. P. I. J.** S.**, dans un ouvrage inedit, auquel il est donne pour titre: Recherches sur la nature des etres sensibles.
[JAUNEZ-SPONVILLE, Pierre Ignace (1750-1805)] & Nicolas BUGNET (1749-1822)
Published by [Paris], de l'imprimerie de Le Normant [1809, 1809
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Add to basket]-08.3 volumes in 2. 12mo. VIII,9-283; 222,[5], 6,11-72,[4 errata],4[publ.cat.]. Contemp. half calf, backs richly gilt decorated, marbled sides and edges. Bookplate ( F. Lachevre') to front pastedown of first volume with some annotations. First edition. Very rare since most copies were seized and destroyed by the police, with on…ly two copies located in WorldCat. The most famous utopia of the Napoleontic era. It is however not only an imaginary voyage but also a political attack against France ( Narcef'), the French ( Inarcafs') and Napoleon ( Ponelano'). It is written in the form of a dialogue between an inhabitant of an unidentified country named Ruvarebohni (an anagram of Vrai bonheur') and a foreign visitor. It contains numerous ideas that foreshadowed those of the utopian socialists of the following decades. The second work, Bugnet's Catechisme', occupies the second half of the second volume and has an own title-page and pagination. The publisher's name appears only on the verso of the title of the first work. The second work has the publisher's name on title, it had been published separately already in 1808. The next year Bugnet finished the whole work after the manuscripts left by his close friend Jaunez-Sponville.A new edition appeared 1881 edited by Carle de Rash (pseud. for Charles Read) d'apres un exemplaire echappe au pilon de la Haute Police Imperiale'. The absence of the two leaves (p.7-10) from the second work is correct and explained in the errata.*INED 2353. Maitron II,p.375. WorldCat locates copies in the BnF and BL only.
