CURIOSA - [Louis-Gabriel BOURDON]. Le parc au cerf, ou L'ori - Lot 52

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CURIOSA - [Louis-Gabriel BOURDON]. Le parc au cerf, ou L'ori - Lot 52
CURIOSA - [Louis-Gabriel BOURDON]. Le parc au cerf, ou L'origine de l'affreux déficit, by a zealous patriot. Paris, sur les débris de la Bastille, 1790. In-8, 12 x 19.5 cm, 8 + 192 pp. with frontispiece and 3 plates, Rare and violent revolutionary pamphlet recounting the debaucheries of Louis XV and the Marquise de Pompadour, in the Parc aux Cerfs at Versailles, where, according to rumors, young women chosen and dressed to satisfy the king's pleasures lodged. The engraved illustration includes a frontispiece, portraits of the Duchesse de Chateauroux and the Marquise de Pompadour, and a free plate featuring the converted Jewish banker Peixotte and an opera dancer. Good condition. Light foxing and faint old dampstaining. Some browned quires. Cohen 182 - Gay III, 631 "The figure of Peixotte is often missing..."- Nordmann II, 104 - Pia 1079. Bound at the head: Jeanne de LA MOTTE. Mémoire justificatif de la comtesse de Valois de la Motte...- Second mémoire justificatif... London, 1789. 2 books, 216 pp. & 1 f., 78 pp., frontispiece. Gravitating around Marie-Antoinette, Jeanne de Valois was involved in the affair of the necklace with her husband, the comte de la Motte, and her lover, the cardinal de Rohan. Imprisoned in Paris, she managed to escape to England, where she published her memoir against the Queen. The second memoir is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece.
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