Essais en vers et en prose

Published by De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, 1796

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De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné | Paris An V de la République, 1796 | 11 x 18.50 cm | broché | Édition originale de ce recueil. Exemplaire unique dans lequel les feuillets 57-59 contenant la Marseillaise ont été remplacés par le livret original de l'hymne révolutionnaire. Ces deux feuillets gravés - intitulés Chanson des Marseillois, chantée sur l'emplacement de la Bastille à l'adresse de Frere, passage du saumon (s. d. mais avant octobre 1792) - constituent la toute première impression de l'hymne qui avait été diffusée en feuillets libres pour pouvoir être appris de tous. Précieux envoi autographe signé de Rouget de l'Isle à Madame de Gordon en tête de la page de titre. Notre exemplaire est en outre truffé, monté sur un feuillet blanc et en regard de la page de titre, d'un portrait original dessiné au crayon de l'auteur de profil et, en fin de volume, du Chant des industriels (1821). Une figure avant la lettre et 5 pages de musique gravée. Reliure postérieure en plein veau Lavallière, dos à cinq nerfs orné, date dorée en queue, triple filet doré en encadrement des plats, gardes et contreplats de papier peigné, dentelle dorée en encadrement des contreplats. Reliure signée Koehler en pied du dos. Exemplaire non rogné. On trouve les six quatrains tels qu'ils furent écrits le capitaine Rouget de l'Isle pour l'armée du Rhin en avril 1792, à la suite de la déclaration de guerre contre l'empire d'Autriche. Un an avant cette première publication en volume, le régime de la Convention l'adopta comme hymne national de la République française et en fit l'emblème de la résistance révolutionnaire. Officiellement réinstaurée sous la IIIe République, elle figure aujourd'hui dans la Constitution française au même titre que le drapeau tricolore. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise. First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le Barbier and 4 pages of score engraved at the end of the volume. The Marseillaise appears in its real first edition, having been the subject of a pre-publication in the Almanac of the Muses in 1793 and in the form of loose leaflets. Binding semi-sheepskin contemporary, smooth back adorned with boxes, jewels and gilded lace, title label red morocco, black cardboard boards. Several ex-libris handwritten or glued on the contreplat and the guards. Back restored, some foxinges. The last two letters of the dedicatee's name have been trimmed to binding. The book is enriched on the fake page of an exceptional autograph from Rouget de L'Isle to another artist of the Revolution: "M de La Chabeaussie [re] / from the author". Rouget de Lisle and Poisson de la Chabeaussière, the recipient of the consignment, both embodied the revolutionary fervor and marked Republican history by their pen. The Marseillaise appears in the book on page [PAGE?] Among other poems and songs. This first edition delivers the famous song in its original state. It comprises six quatrains, as written by Captain Rouget de l'Isle for the Army of the Rhine in April 1792, then instituted national anthem in 1795 by the decree of 26 Messidor year III. Paroliers and men of letters, Rouget de l'Isle and Chabeaussière were the zealous servants of the Revolution but also the victims of its excesses. At the writing of this dedication, in year V of the Republic, the two men are at the summit of their glory. One is the author of the national anthem that thrills revolutionary France, and the other the most popular republican catechism during the Revolution. Indeed, the Chabeaussière also composes a major work of the revolutionary inheritance: a republican, philosophical and moral Catechism , reissued 82 times until the Third Republic, and which promoted it to the Executive Commission of the public instruction . Like Rouget de L'Isle, he has enjoyed success as a lyricist and libr.…

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Title
Essais en vers et en prose
Author
Claude-Joseph ROUGET DE LISLE
Publisher
De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné
Publication year
1796
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Binding
Couverture rigide
Edition
1st Edition
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