234 - [REVOLUTION].

[REVOLUTION]. The French CONSTITUTION, enacted by the National Constituent Assembly in the years 1789, 1790, and 1791; Presented to the King on September 3, 1791, and accepted by His Majesty on the 14th of the same month In Paris, from the Printing House of Didot the Younger, 1791. In-4 (18.5 x 28 cm), (3)-VII-(1)-118 pp., (1) blank folio, on laid paper. In sheets (unbound after a temporary cover sheet; a light stain in the center of the first two folios; some corners and edges slightly soiled and nicked on the first folios; a crease slightly split on one folio; the back cover slightly soiled). Bibliography: Tourneux, I, 99. Monglond, II, 90. Description: One of the earliest and finest editions of the French Constitution, typeset and printed by Pierre-François Didot in 1791. One of the editions from the original year, printed on thick laid paper, with full margins. It looks much like a copy fresh off the press. Tourneux highlights the elegance and quality of the printing characteristic of the Didot family. The text is preceded by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Printed with the King’s Letter to the National Assembly, the King’s Oath for the acceptance of the Constitution of September 14, 1791, and the Alphabetical Index, pp. (105)–118. Completed on September 3, 1791, the Constitution was accepted by the king on the 13th of the same month. The following day, he took the oath and signed the constitutional act establishing national sovereignty