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Crimea - CASTRES. Relation d'un voyage sur le bord septentrional de la mer d'Azof et en Crimée, dans la vue d'y établir une colonie d'émigrés. Paris, A. J. Kilian, Paris, Ch. Picquet, 1826. In-8, 10-XX-381 pp, full facsimile, brown pebbled basane, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). First and only edition of this rare book. The Comte de Castres was marshal de camp on the staff of the Prince de Condé's regiment at the time of the Revolution, and then in the various campaigns of the emigrant armies. In 1826, having returned to France after the amnesty of 1802, he published the report of his mission of exploration and information in the Crimea, commissioned in 1792 by the Prince. Anxious to find a suitable asylum for French émigrés in the event of permanent exile, Condé sought the help of Empress Catherine of Russia, who proposed the idea of a French military colony in Tauride (southern Russia). The project was subject to the vagaries of the Prince's choice of Austria, regime changes in France and the views of Emperor Paul of Russia, and never came to fruition. (Quérard, II, 80.)

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Crimea - CASTRES. Relation d'un voyage sur le bord septentrional de la mer d'Azof et en Crimée, dans la vue d'y établir une colonie d'émigrés. Paris, A. J. Kilian, Paris, Ch. Picquet, 1826. In-8, 10-XX-381 pp, full facsimile, brown pebbled basane, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (period binding). First and only edition of this rare book. The Comte de Castres was marshal de camp on the staff of the Prince de Condé's regiment at the time of the Revolution, and then in the various campaigns of the emigrant armies. In 1826, having returned to France after the amnesty of 1802, he published the report of his mission of exploration and information in the Crimea, commissioned in 1792 by the Prince. Anxious to find a suitable asylum for French émigrés in the event of permanent exile, Condé sought the help of Empress Catherine of Russia, who proposed the idea of a French military colony in Tauride (southern Russia). The project was subject to the vagaries of the Prince's choice of Austria, regime changes in France and the views of Emperor Paul of Russia, and never came to fruition. (Quérard, II, 80.)

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