Author: Chaux, Pierre
Title: Nã‚â°5. Coup-D'Oeil, Ou Notes Pour Servir a la Defense de Pierre Chaux, Capitaine D'Artillerie, Membre Du Comite de Nantes. [Together with]: "Nã‚â°6. Suite Des Notes, Pour Servir a la Defense de Pierre Chaux... .
Description: [Angers, France]: De L'Imprimerie de Jahyer et Geslin, imprimeurs-libraires, rue Milton, [1795]. [1795]. [Angers, France]: De L'Imprimerie de Jahyer et Geslin, imprimeurs-libraires, rue Milton, [1795]. [1795]. Very good. - Octavo, 7-5/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed self-wraps. Once likely bound with other pamphlets, the book has been removed with remnants of a paper spine. There is a small purple stamp at the bottom of the front wrapper: "Kraus Oct. 11, 1948". The cover page is slightly soiled & darkened with a crease to the bottom corner and a previous owner's name is penned at the top of both title pages. 88 pages, including the cover pages. There is some minor faint foxing. Very good. RARE First edition, WorldCat locating only a single copy in the Bibliotheque nationale de France. Pierre Chaux de Champeaux (1755-1817) was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Nantes formed by Jean-Baptiste Carrier in October of 1793 during the Reign of Terror which set in motion the notorious drownings at Nantes. Chaux also played an important role in the barbaric act of sending 132 Nantais to Paris under cruel conditions. On September 3, 1794 Carrier was put on trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was found guilty and was executed in December. Pierre Chaux was arrested in July of 1794 for the role he played in the drownings. He appeared before the Tribunal in October 1794 and was convicted. He was the beneficiary of the amnesty of October 26, 1795 decided by the Thermidorian Convention. The two pamphlets at hand were published in order to present his case to the convention. The first is signed in print by Chaux at Angers and dated September 19, 1795. The second is dated September 26, 1795. The pamphlets includes numerous statements by participants in the French revolution including Carrier, General Lamberty, Foucher and Villers, Herault-Sechelles, etc. At the head of No. 5 is the statement "L'habitude des bonnes actions exclut l'idee du crime." At the head of No. 6 is "Qui fit la revolution?..Le Peuple, les patriotes ardens; ils sonnerent le tocsin contre la tyrannie. Very good .

Keywords: HISTORY; FRENCH REVOLUTION; N°5. COUP-D'OEIL, OU NOTES POUR SERVIR A LA DEFENSE DE PIERRE CHAUX, CAPITAINE D'ARTILLERIE, MEMBRE DU COMITE DE NANTES; N°6. SUITE DES NOTES, POUR SERVIR A LA DEFENSE DE PIERRE CHAUX; 18TH CENTURY; EIGHTEENTH C


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