Beffroy de Reigny dit le Cousin Jacques - Courrier des planètes par le Cousin Jacques - 1789
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Beffroy de Reigny dit le Cousin Jacques — Courrier des Planètes, ou Correspondance du Cousin Jacques avec le firmament, Second Year, first half of January 1789, Paris 1789, in-12, 300 pages, French original text, 1st edition, in Bon condition.
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BEFFROY DE REIGNY, Louis-Abel, called the “Cousin Jacques”
Courrier des Planètes, or Correspondence of Cousin Jacques with the Firmament. Second Year. First half-month. Fifty-third issue of the work. Thursday, January 1, 1789 [bound with the following numbers from January to April 1789].
Paris, at the General Office of Cousin Jacques / Belin, 1789.
A small-format volume in full contemporary marbled calf, spine with a smooth surface but richly adorned with gilded compartments and ornamented scrolls, title piece in havana morocco and fount piece in black morocco, red edges, marbled endpapers. A binding of exquisite freshness despite some minor wear, testifying to the refinement of late 18th‑century bibliophiles. Interior fresh, one tear without loss.
Splendid and rare periodic collection of a masterpiece of satirical and utopian fantasy, published at the very dawn of the French Revolution. The volume gathers several issues of this interplanetary journal founded by the truculent Louis-Abel Beffroy de Reigny, a playwright and comic poet nicknamed by his contemporaries the “poet of the Revolution.”
Under the burlesque mask of a “Cousin Jacques” inventing a farcical correspondence with the Moon, Mars, and Saturn, the author unfolds a social critique of unprecedented audacity, mixing tales, verse pieces, vaudevilles, and imaginary decrees from extraterrestrial sovereign courts.
This choice copy is accompanied by a singular and biting anecdote tied to the genesis of the author’s pseudonym: following a salon jest by a circle of fashionable ladies who compared the whimsical variety of his writings with the fertile imagination of a modest countryman they knew, simply nicknamed the “Cousin Jacques,” Beffroy de Reigny decided to permanently assume this literary persona to enchant all of Paris and outpace the tremors of History.
A sparkling witness to the spirit of the closing Enlightenment, captured at the threshold of the fateful year 1789.
BEFFROY DE REIGNY, Louis-Abel, called the “Cousin Jacques”
Courrier des Planètes, or Correspondence of Cousin Jacques with the Firmament. Second Year. First half-month. Fifty-third issue of the work. Thursday, January 1, 1789 [bound with the following numbers from January to April 1789].
Paris, at the General Office of Cousin Jacques / Belin, 1789.
A small-format volume in full contemporary marbled calf, spine with a smooth surface but richly adorned with gilded compartments and ornamented scrolls, title piece in havana morocco and fount piece in black morocco, red edges, marbled endpapers. A binding of exquisite freshness despite some minor wear, testifying to the refinement of late 18th‑century bibliophiles. Interior fresh, one tear without loss.
Splendid and rare periodic collection of a masterpiece of satirical and utopian fantasy, published at the very dawn of the French Revolution. The volume gathers several issues of this interplanetary journal founded by the truculent Louis-Abel Beffroy de Reigny, a playwright and comic poet nicknamed by his contemporaries the “poet of the Revolution.”
Under the burlesque mask of a “Cousin Jacques” inventing a farcical correspondence with the Moon, Mars, and Saturn, the author unfolds a social critique of unprecedented audacity, mixing tales, verse pieces, vaudevilles, and imaginary decrees from extraterrestrial sovereign courts.
This choice copy is accompanied by a singular and biting anecdote tied to the genesis of the author’s pseudonym: following a salon jest by a circle of fashionable ladies who compared the whimsical variety of his writings with the fertile imagination of a modest countryman they knew, simply nicknamed the “Cousin Jacques,” Beffroy de Reigny decided to permanently assume this literary persona to enchant all of Paris and outpace the tremors of History.
A sparkling witness to the spirit of the closing Enlightenment, captured at the threshold of the fateful year 1789.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
History, Politics
Book title
Courrier des planètes par le Cousin Jacques
Author/ Illustrator
Beffroy de Reigny dit le Cousin Jacques
Condition
Good
Publication year oldest item
1789
Height
16 cm
Edition
1st Edition
Width
9 cm
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Number of pages
300
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