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Joseph CORMIR, bekannt als Joe DESCAMPS (1869-1950), 'Satyrenpaar' / 'A pair of satyrs' Material: Bronze, patinated, on a marble base, Signature: 'Joe Descamps', Dimensions: 22 x 31 cm, Condition: good

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Joseph CORMIR, bekannt als Joe DESCAMPS (1869-1950), 'Satyrenpaar' / 'A pair of satyrs' Material: Bronze, patinated, on a marble base, Signature: 'Joe Descamps', Dimensions: 22 x 31 cm, Condition: good

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PORTALIS (Joseph-Marie). Mes Souvenirs politiques. [MANUSCRIT]. Sl, sd. [826] ff, various fine writings, moderately legible, numerous erasures and crossings out, in leaves, red half-chagrin box, gray suede interior. Exceptional manuscript file, preserved in the Portalis family, and containing part of the unpublished Souvenirs of the son of Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), considered one of the Fathers of the Civil Code: Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858), who must have written them during the Empire, perhaps during the period of forced rest that followed his resounding disgrace of January 1811. Never finished, never really edited, these notes, sometimes very confused by variants and corrections, passed to his family after the death of the First President of the Court of Cassation. THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIPT OF PORTALIS' MEMOIRS The period covered by these memoirs covers only the pre-Revolutionary years (1787-1789) and the Revolution itself, from the convening of the Estates General to September 1797, when the young Joseph-Marie, aged just nineteen, accompanied his father into exile: condemned to deportation following the coup d'état of 18 fructidor an V, Portalis Sr. went into hiding and was able to reach Holstein via Switzerland and Germany. This departure from France is documented in the last folder of the first editorial set, from the departure from Passy to the stay in Zurich. The two men were not to return to France until after the 18th of Brumaire, young Joseph with a brand-new wife in Holstein (the Countess de Holck), and under the Consulate and the Empire the brilliant destiny we know so well, which is not alluded to in these pages. PORTALIS DURING THE TERROR. On the other hand, these pages shed light on Portalis Père's conduct during the 1789 Revolution and the Terror. The validity and accuracy of the young man's recollections (he was between 9 and 19 years old) and the quality of their transcription into adult life must, of course, be qualified. Similarly, the repercussions of the great revolutionary upheavals on life and events in Provence, especially in the Aix region, are well documented.