Lafont-Gouzy, (Gabriel-Grégoire) - Vie de Jacques Cathelineau, premier généralissime des armées catholiques et royales de la Vendée. Paris, Le Normant 1821. In-8° paperback, 2 ff, xxiv, 138 pp, 1 ff (prospectus). Uncommon second edition. Lemière, 241 and 371. L'Anjou historique, May 1902, p. 607 establishes with absolute certainty that the author of this anonymous work is not M. de Genoude, as previously believed, but a Toulouse doctor by the name of Lafont-Gouzy. Scattered brown spots, small light wetness in the margin of the last 10 leaves and in the margin of the faux-titre and title.

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