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Supper at Beaucaire, Translated By Somerset De Chair Bonaparte, Napoleon
London Waltham St Lawrence Golden Cockerel Press 1945
small 8vo. No. 69 of 100 printed on handmade paper and signed by the translator. Full vellum gilt honeycombe with Napoleonic Bee on cover. Very near fine in very good clear dust wrapper. Completed in July 29, 1793, while he was captain in the French Army, Napoleon wrote it as a plea to end a bloody civil war that was raging in the south of France during the summer of the same year. During this conflict, troops of the Marseilles National Guard seized the city of Avignon, an important ammunition center, and massacred thirty civilians in cold blood, according to Napoleon’s biographer Vincent Cronin. On July 24, 1793, Napoleon took part in General Jean Carteaux’s successful attack to retake this city. As an active participant, Napoleon grimly witnessed the horrors of civil war when his own troops shot and killed national guardsmen and civilians. This experience at Avignon deeply upset him and caused him to write a political pamphlet in which he wrote down his personal views of witnessing Frenchmen killing Frenchmen. Thus the Supper at Beaucaire was born from this grim wartime experience. Beautiful little presentation. E-mail for pictures.
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