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[Charles THÉVENEAU de MORANDE] Le Gazetier Cuirassé ou Anecdotes Scandaleuses de la Cour de France. Printed a hundred leagues from the Bastille [London] in 1771, in-8 bound in full contemporary basane, smooth rubbed spine adorned with gilt fleurons, title page, missing headpieces. Engraved frontispiece - 154 pages and one errata leaf. Bound following, by the same author: - "Confused Mélanges sur des matières fort claires" Printed under the sun [London, 1771], of VIII and 82 pages and an errata leaf. - "Le Philosophe Cynique, pour servir de suite aux Anecdotes..." Printed in an Isle that Shakes the Firm Earth [London, 1777] of XV and 93 pages followed by XX pages and an errata leaf for the "Clef des Nouvelles de l'Opéra Vestales et Matrones de Paris", "Clef des Nouvelles Enigmatiques" and "Clef des Nouvelles Transparentes", parts that make up Le Philosophe. "Le Gazetier cuirassé" was one of the most shocking and best-selling libellés of the Ancien Régime, and one of the greatest successes of underground literature, exposing the debaucheries and scandals of the nobility. Drujon (Les Livres à clés, I, 387) "Cet ouvrage est un pamphlet très mordant, injurieux et souvent calomnieux, dirigé contre les principaux personnages de la Cour de France, notamment contre Mme du Barry, le Comte de Saint-Florentin et le Chancelier Maupéou, désignés en tête du frontispice gravé par les trois chiffres D.B., S.F. et D.M.". For "Le Philosophe Cynique", Drujon (II, 775) states that it is "certainly the most odious and foulest of all pamphlets". This type of pamphlet was used by refugee writers in London to blackmail the defamed.
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[Charles THÉVENEAU de MORANDE] Le Gazetier Cuirassé ou Anecdotes Scandaleuses de la Cour de France. Printed a hundred leagues from the Bastille [London] in 1771, in-8 bound in full contemporary basane, smooth rubbed spine adorned with gilt fleurons, title page, missing headpieces. Engraved frontispiece - 154 pages and one errata leaf. Bound following, by the same author: - "Confused Mélanges sur des matières fort claires" Printed under the sun [London, 1771], of VIII and 82 pages and an errata leaf. - "Le Philosophe Cynique, pour servir de suite aux Anecdotes..." Printed in an Isle that Shakes the Firm Earth [London, 1777] of XV and 93 pages followed by XX pages and an errata leaf for the "Clef des Nouvelles de l'Opéra Vestales et Matrones de Paris", "Clef des Nouvelles Enigmatiques" and "Clef des Nouvelles Transparentes", parts that make up Le Philosophe. "Le Gazetier cuirassé" was one of the most shocking and best-selling libellés of the Ancien Régime, and one of the greatest successes of underground literature, exposing the debaucheries and scandals of the nobility. Drujon (Les Livres à clés, I, 387) "Cet ouvrage est un pamphlet très mordant, injurieux et souvent calomnieux, dirigé contre les principaux personnages de la Cour de France, notamment contre Mme du Barry, le Comte de Saint-Florentin et le Chancelier Maupéou, désignés en tête du frontispice gravé par les trois chiffres D.B., S.F. et D.M.". For "Le Philosophe Cynique", Drujon (II, 775) states that it is "certainly the most odious and foulest of all pamphlets". This type of pamphlet was used by refugee writers in London to blackmail the defamed.
