REVOLUTION: Acts of the Apostles (Les), begun on the Day of the Dead, and finished on the Day of the Purification. P., 1789- 1791. 8 volumes . in-8°, full marbled calf bindings, 5-ribbed spines decorated with gilded caissons, bottle-green basane title-pieces (period binding), (wear) Chatrian, Curé de Saint-Clément, Député". Beautiful set of "one of the most famous royalist leaves, and of all those of the period the wittiest and most piquant, founded by Peltier" (Hatin). Rivarol, Mirabeau le Jeune, Bergasse, Montlosier, Lauraguais, among others, contributed to this journal, which appeared from November 1789 to October 1791, approximately every two days. (Hatin, pp. 94- 96; Martin & Walter, Journaux, 8). - volume I: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. I-30, epilogue - vol. 3: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 61-90, epilogue - vol. 4: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 91-120, epilogue - vol. 5: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 121-150, epilogue - volume 6: engraved frontispiece, introduction, n°151-180, epilogue - vol. 7: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 181-210, epilogue (with engraved folding plate, no. 210) - vol. 8: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 211-240, epilogue - volume 9: engraved frontispiece, introduction, nos. 241-270, epilogue Copy of Abbé Laurent Chatrian (1732-1814), curé de Saint-Clément (near his native Lunéville), from 1778 to 1789. "From June 28, 1790, Chatrian was a member of the Estates General, replacing Abbé Bastien, curé of Xeuilley, who had died. Passive, he did not stand out, merely protesting against the Assembly's anti-Catholic measures and the vote on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. On January 4, 1791, he refused to take the constitutional oath, which he described as "impious". His categorical refusal testified to the depth of his faith and his loyalty to his bishop, Monseigneur de La Fare, who had already left his diocese on the night of January 7-8, 1791, to take refuge in Trier. After the closing of the Assemblée Nationale on September 30, 1791, Chatrian, recognized as a refractory, returned to Lorraine. Deprived of his parish and any salary, he settled in Lunéville. Hostile measures against refractory priests hit him hard, but did not threaten his life. He decided to emigrate to Trier in May 1792, to find his bishop and a few priests already reunited by exile." (Juliette Français)