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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R260160078: 1947. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 211 pages. Coiffes abîmées. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française.

A Paris, Chez Anth. Boucher, et chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1822. 241, (1) pp. + booksellers catalogue (Boucher) of 8 pages. 8vo. Sewn in original blind wrappers. First edition. Marchangy was the government prosecutor at the trial of the four sergeants of La Rochelle. This prosecution was his most famous case: the four sergeants were executed for their part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. The Carbonari or Charbonnerie, a secret revolutionary group opposed to the Bourbon Restoration government, most active from 1821 to 1823. It was started after conspirators who had fled to Italy and had been in contact with the orginal Italian Carbonari, returned to France to found their own Carbonari, in May 1821. The society grew rapidly, merged with another secret revolutionary group, the Knights of Liberty, and had perhaps 50,000 members within two years. The Carbonari were remarkably unsuccesful at revolution. The most famous uprising of this revolutionary group was that of four sergeants of La Rochelle. These unfortunate young soldiers, too open with their comrades about a planned uprising, were executed on 21 September 1822. They could probably have saved themselves by cooperating with the government in tracking down the carbonari leadership. Their silence earned them liberal sainthood: see: Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second Empire, volume i, pp. 152-154. - Somewhat browned throughout, uncut.…