[Rarebooks] FS: French scandalmonger Theveneau de Morande's most famous work. 1772

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(FRANCE) [Theveneau de Morande, Charles]. LE GAZETIER CUIRASSE: ou 
Anecdotes Scandaleuses de la Cour de France. No place (London?): Imprime a cent 
lieues de la Bastille... 1772. Sm. 8vo. 174pp. Engraved frontispiece (mounted on 
paper guard at inner margin). Finely bound in 19th c, 1/2 red morocco, gilt 
decorated spine, over cloth. T.e.g. Frontispiece with bottom caption 
trimmed. Bookplate of Paul E. Bechet and with a page of his notes on a blank 
preliminary.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
Theveneau de Morande (1741-1805) was a notorious literary low-life, 
blackmailer and French spy, who lived in London from 1769-1791. At one point he 
received a pay-off and royal pension in return for suppressing a lampoon of the 
French king's mistress. Madame du Barry. "Le Gazetier Cuirasse" is his most 
famous work. This edition of 1772 is scarce.

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