61 - LÉONARD (M. de). An Accurate and Impartial Account of What Happened in Nancy on August 31 and the Preceding Days; with a Detailed Account of the Events That Preceded and Accompanied the Insurrection of the Garrison and Part of the Citizen Guard [...] Paris, Mme Henry; Paris, Le Tellier and Cuchet; Metz, Collignon; Strasbourg, Treutel, 1790. In-4, vii–188 pp. Brown half-maroquin, smooth spine with decoration (bound ca. 1820). A few minor scuffs.

LÉONARD (M. de). An Accurate and Impartial Account of What Happened in Nancy on August 31 and the Preceding Days; with a Detailed Account of the Events That Preceded and Accompanied the Insurrection of the Garrison and Part of the Citizen Guard [...] Paris, Mme Henry; Paris, Le Tellier and Cuchet; Metz, Collignon; Strasbourg, Treutel, 1790. In-4, vii–188 pp. Brown half-maroquin, smooth spine with decoration (bound ca. 1820). A few minor scuffs. First edition of one of the principal contemporary accounts of the Nancy affair, written by an officer of the regiment of the General Master-of-Camp of the Cavalry. The work recounts the events leading up to the mutiny of the Nancy garrison and its bloody suppression on August 31, 1790, by the troops of the Marquis de Bouillé. It constitutes a firsthand account of one of the most serious military crises of the early French Revolution.