Author: Maréchal, Pierre-Sylvain
Title: Le Livre de Tous Les Ages Ou le Pibrac; Quatrains Moraux. First Edition
Description: Paris: A Cosmopolis et Chez Cailleau, 1779. 16mo. Contemporary 1/4 basane. vii, 205 + 3pp. of ads. Engraved frontispiece. Very good. OCLC only lists a later ediiton. Sylvain Maréchal the "Man without God" On 15 August 1750 one of the most radical socialist atheists of all times was born in Paris. Sylvain Maréchal, a poet whose Manifest of the Equals was too much even for the egalitarian conspiracy of Gracchus Babeuf, was the author of an Almanach des Honnętes Gens, in which he proposed a new calendar replacing the names of the Saints with those of the "benefactors of humanity" -- philosophers, writers and scientists. The IISH holds one of the largest collections of Maréchal's writings anywhere. .
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Title: Le Livre de Tous Les Ages Ou le Pibrac; Quatrains Moraux. First Edition
Description: Paris: A Cosmopolis et Chez Cailleau, 1779. 16mo. Contemporary 1/4 basane. vii, 205 + 3pp. of ads. Engraved frontispiece. Very good. OCLC only lists a later ediiton. Sylvain Maréchal the "Man without God" On 15 August 1750 one of the most radical socialist atheists of all times was born in Paris. Sylvain Maréchal, a poet whose Manifest of the Equals was too much even for the egalitarian conspiracy of Gracchus Babeuf, was the author of an Almanach des Honnętes Gens, in which he proposed a new calendar replacing the names of the Saints with those of the "benefactors of humanity" -- philosophers, writers and scientists. The IISH holds one of the largest collections of Maréchal's writings anywhere. .
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Price: US$ 425.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-3316
- Book number: 51-3316
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