REVOLUTION - THEATRE - Collection of 7 plays... - Lot 30 - Vermot et Associés

REVOLUTION - THEATRE - Collection of 7 plays in an in-8 volume in old-fashioned half-basecloth (some rubbing, one spine split). 1/Vaqué (Pierre): Les citoyens français ou le triomphe de la Révolution. Chez l'Auteur et Cussac, 1791, 123 pages; 2/Abbé de VERMOND: Dernière édition de la Cour Plénière, héroï-tragi(comédie...Baville et Paris, Chez la veuve Liberté, 1788. 120 pages; 3/Dénonciation au public à l'occasion de quelques écrits anonymes; particulièrement d'une comédie ayant pour titre: La Cour Plénière, faussement attribués à M. Bergasse...Paris, 1788. 44 pp. and 1 ff; 4/Anonymous: Lettre missive écrite aux notables, en leur adressant cette dénonciation...1788. 4 pages; 5/Nicolas de BONNEVILLE: Very rare prospectus announcing the creation of the revolutionary newspaper "la BOUCHE de FER", Imprimerie du Cercle Social, s.d. (circa 1790); 8 pages; La Bouche de fer was a Parisian newspaper published between October 1790 and July 1791. Edited by Nicolas de Bonneville and supervised by Claude Fauchet, La Bouche de fer is the organ of the Cercle social, whose deliberations it reproduces three times a week, then daily from June 22, 1791. The "Cercle social" enterprise, at the heart of Bonneville's activity, "held a central place in the intellectual life of the first years of the Revolution", as M. Dorigny has written. It was a multi-level system: "The SOCIAL CIRCLE, which oversees and directs the Iron Mouth, a patriotic and fraternal journal, has as its object, in this work, THE UNIVERSAL CONFEDERATION OF FRIENDS OF TRUTH", as explained in issue no. 1 of the Iron Mouth (Oct. 1790). The core of the "Cercle Social" was made up of former representatives of the provisional Paris Commune (established in the summer of 1789) - marginalized by the elections to the new municipality (downsized from 60 districts to 48 sections) in August-September 1790 - and writers. To unite the "patriots", the Cercle Social set up two levers: a newspaper, La Bouche de fer (The Iron Mouth), which was supposed to be fed by notices, letters, memoirs, denunciations and projects placed by anyone who wished in metal boxes at the entrance to the Cercle's offices (located in the Odéon district, rue du Théâtre français), a newspaper edited by Bonneville ; and the "Assemblées fédératives des Amis de la Vérité", led by Abbé Fauchet - public meetings whose stated aim was nothing less than to draw up a "Pacte fédératif du genre humain", to be held at the Palais-Royal "Cirque" (Patrick Brasart, Bonneville et le Cercle Social, 2013) 6/BONNEVILLE Nicolas de: L'Année 1789 ou les tribuns du peuple. Dans Tous les Bureaux de la Bouche de Fer, Imprimerie du Cercle Social, no date ('circa 1790). 80 pages; 7/[Andrieux] Saint-Roch et Saint-Thomas, nouvelle. Paris, Dabin, 1802. 15 pages. First edition of this short story in verse about the funeral of a famous Opera dancer, Mlle Chameroy, during which the parish priest refused to allow the body to enter his church (1795).