[Rarebooks] fa: SAINT-JUST - RAPPORT FAIT A LA CONVENTION NATIONALE 1794 (re. DANTON et al)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Antoine Louis Leon de Saint-Just: Convention Nationale. Rapport fait a la Convention Nationale, au nom de ses Comites des Sûrete Generale et de Salut Public, sur la Conjuration ourdie depuis plusieurs annees par les Factions criminelles, pour absorber la Revolution Française dans un changement de dynastie; & contre Fabre d'eglantine, Danton, Philippeaux, Lacroix et Camille-Desmoulins, prevenus de complicite dans ces Factions, et d'autres delits personnels contre la Liberte; par St-Just. Imprime par ordre de la Convention Seance du 11 Germinal. Paris: l'Imprimerie Nationale, l'an 2 de la Republique Française [1794]. Slim 8vo (20.5 cm) bound in modern cloth-covered boards with gilt spine title; 38 pp.

Saint-Just's denunciation of Danton and his followers, issued at the height of the Reign of Terror, when Saint-Just, Robespierre and the other members of the Committee of Public Safety exercised near total control over the French government. Five days after this speech was given, on 16 Germinal (5 April 1794), Danton, Desmoulins and the others  were led to the guillotine. Saint-Just and Robespierre would follow them less than four months later. Some toning to the leaves (most noticeable on the first and last page), occasional light damp-stain, a few scattered small spots, else clean.