GREGORY (Henry, known as the Abbot)
    OF THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION OF THE YEAR 1814, 4th corrected and augmented edition
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1814
    in-8, paperback, temporary cover, (yellowed), XXVI-38 p.
    This partially original edition of the pamphlet, published in April 1814 (1st and 2nd eds. 34 pp., 3rd ed. VIII-40 pp., 4th ed. XXVI-38 pp.), includes a “first and last reply to the pamphleteers” presented as written by the publisher, but the tone and passages from unpublished works by Abbé Grégoire clearly indicate that it was written by the author himself. This is an important document that reflects the former Napoleonic senator's desire to challenge the establishment of the Charter granted to him. It echoes the revolutionary Grégoire's fight against slavery (see the passages on what to think of the “legitimate master” that France regained with its king). The foreword is a self-justifying plea aimed at demonstrating his balanced stance both during the Revolution (he remained a bishop, voted against the king's execution…) and against royalists, particularly Bergasse, whom he accuses of successive and contradictory enthusiasms, “of flattering harangues of the kind addressed to the recently ended government, which perhaps had the same men as its authors.” This text marks Grégoire's retirement; he would never again hold an official position, lost his seat at the Institut de France in 1816, and withdrew until his death in 1831. Our edition is rare and sought after.

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