Honoré Riouffe - Mémoires d’un détenu — Pour servir à l’histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre - 1795

[RIOUFFE (Honoré)]. Memoirs of a detainee, to serve as the history of Robespierre's tyranny. Paris, Anjubault printing house, for Brigitte Mathé and Louvet, in the Third Year [1794–1795]. Second edition, revised and enlarged. XXIV-228 pages; 14 × 21.5 cm approximately.

Published after Thermidor, this testimony of a close associate of the Girondins describes the life of the prisoners in the Conciergerie during the Terror. Riouffe composes his narrative in scenes and portraits: the transfers, the news circulating from one cell to another, and the last words of the condemned give the book its character as a lived memory. This second edition considerably enlarges the first; it can be recognized by the Anjubault address and its pagination of 228 pages, as noted in the Drouot sales catalog.

Copy with a blue waiting-cover, with untrimmed sheets.

Condition: edges patinated and light traces of damp.