Manuscrit Trouvé Au Mont Pausilype (Manuscript Found At Mount Pausilype) (5 vols.)
Paris: Le Normant, Impr.-Libraire, 1805. New edition, revised and corrected. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [4] 308, [4] 366, [4] 272, [4] 283, [4] 359pp. Original calf with decorative framing on covers, gilt lettering and tooling on spines. Marbled edges. Brown endpapers. Each volume with frontispiece engraving and tissue guard, printed by Maradan sculp. Subtitled "The Story of Four Spaniards." Text in French. Some light wear along edges of binding. Vol. 1 with light scuffs on covers and small chip at head of spine; vol. 2 with small chips on spine; vol. 3 and 4 with half of label with lettering missing and small chips at lower labels; vol. 5 with with small scuff at top foredge corner of back cover. Endpapers with light sunning along edges. Small library stamps on title pages. Block lightly age-toned. Very good condition. Item #55003
Montjoye was a French lawyer and journalist. He practiced law in Aix before settling down in Paris as a journalist, collaborating with 'L'Année littéraire', and founding 'l'Ami du roi' in 1790. Montjoye was a Royalist opposing the death penalty for the King and subsequently having to go into hiding, resurfacing with the Thermidorian reaction (1794). Like many monarchists he was sentenced to be deported following the coup of 1797 but escaped to Switzerland. After his return to Paris in 1799 he gave up politics to write serials and devoting himself to teaching. As a writer he contributed to the Journal des Débats and Journal Général de France.
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