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SECOND REPUBLIC. CONSTITUTION DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE précédée des rapports et décrets qui y sont relatifs. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1848. Large in-4, (4 of which with white versos)-127-(one white) pp., midnight blue paper boards, smooth threaded spine with gilt title, gilt framing on boards formed by a double fillet with corner fleurons, gilt lettering at center of first cover "Barthélemy (Bouches-du-Rhône) / représentant du peuple / (Bouches-du-Rhône)"; binding a little worn with split jaws, worn headpieces and corners; leaves with occasionally heavy freckling (publisher's binding). Volume in modern midnight-blue percaline folder and cardboard slipcase. FIRST EDITION. When the revolution of February 1848 ousted Louis-Philippe I from the throne, an election of people's representatives was held on April 23, 1848 to form a Constituent Assembly, which sat from May 4, 1848 to May 26, 1849. On May 17, 1848, a Constitution Committee was appointed, comprising representatives from all walks of life, including the socialist Victor Considérant, the Orleanist Odilon Barrot and the conservative Alexis de Tocqueville. The resulting draft was discussed in October 1848, approved on November 4 and promulgated on November 12. A COPY BY THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE BARTHELEMY, ELECTED IN BOUCHES-DU-RHONE. Breaking with his family's monarchist traditions, Joseph-Emmanuel Barthélemy (1804-1880) hailed the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of a Republic, was then chosen as mayor of Marseille and elected to the Constituent Assembly in the process: he sat on the left but not with the Montagne, and voted with the Republicans without associating himself with the demonstrations of the Socialist Party. He did not take part in the Legislative Assembly, but, hostile to the Empire, ran as an opposition candidate in February 1852, without success, and retired from politics. ENRICHED WITH THE SIGNATURES OF MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES, on the front and back of the first flyleaf, including : Emmanuel ARAGO, Jules BASTIDE, Pierre-Napoléon BONAPARTE, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe CHARRAS, Lazare-Hippolyte CARNOT, Ferdinand FLOCON, Victor DESTUTT DE TRACY, Gustave Joseph Baltazar de LABOULIE (elected in Bouches-du-Rhône), Oscar Du Motier de LA FAYETTE, Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de LA MORICIERE, Paul Marie Laurent dit LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE, Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON, Jules SIMON, Achille Tenaille de VAULABELLE. Provenance: Alphonse Margraff bookshop (printed notice from his May-June 1919 catalog, pasted on the first flyleaf).
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SECOND REPUBLIC. CONSTITUTION DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE précédée des rapports et décrets qui y sont relatifs. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1848. Large in-4, (4 of which with white versos)-127-(one white) pp., midnight blue paper boards, smooth threaded spine with gilt title, gilt framing on boards formed by a double fillet with corner fleurons, gilt lettering at center of first cover "Barthélemy (Bouches-du-Rhône) / représentant du peuple / (Bouches-du-Rhône)"; binding a little worn with split jaws, worn headpieces and corners; leaves with occasionally heavy freckling (publisher's binding). Volume in modern midnight-blue percaline folder and cardboard slipcase. FIRST EDITION. When the revolution of February 1848 ousted Louis-Philippe I from the throne, an election of people's representatives was held on April 23, 1848 to form a Constituent Assembly, which sat from May 4, 1848 to May 26, 1849. On May 17, 1848, a Constitution Committee was appointed, comprising representatives from all walks of life, including the socialist Victor Considérant, the Orleanist Odilon Barrot and the conservative Alexis de Tocqueville. The resulting draft was discussed in October 1848, approved on November 4 and promulgated on November 12. A COPY BY THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE BARTHELEMY, ELECTED IN BOUCHES-DU-RHONE. Breaking with his family's monarchist traditions, Joseph-Emmanuel Barthélemy (1804-1880) hailed the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of a Republic, was then chosen as mayor of Marseille and elected to the Constituent Assembly in the process: he sat on the left but not with the Montagne, and voted with the Republicans without associating himself with the demonstrations of the Socialist Party. He did not take part in the Legislative Assembly, but, hostile to the Empire, ran as an opposition candidate in February 1852, without success, and retired from politics. ENRICHED WITH THE SIGNATURES OF MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES, on the front and back of the first flyleaf, including : Emmanuel ARAGO, Jules BASTIDE, Pierre-Napoléon BONAPARTE, Jean-Baptiste Adolphe CHARRAS, Lazare-Hippolyte CARNOT, Ferdinand FLOCON, Victor DESTUTT DE TRACY, Gustave Joseph Baltazar de LABOULIE (elected in Bouches-du-Rhône), Oscar Du Motier de LA FAYETTE, Christophe Léon Louis Juchault de LA MORICIERE, Paul Marie Laurent dit LAURENT DE L'ARDECHE, Pierre-Joseph PROUDHON, Jules SIMON, Achille Tenaille de VAULABELLE. Provenance: Alphonse Margraff bookshop (printed notice from his May-June 1919 catalog, pasted on the first flyleaf).
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