Anonyme - Histoire d'une détention de trente-neuf ans, Dans les prisons d'état - 1787

Rare original edition of this autobiographical or pseudo-autobiographical account that testifies to the prolonged prison experience of a prisoner confined for nearly four decades in the political dungeons of the Ancien Régime.

The work meticulously describes the material conditions of detention, deprivation of liberty, isolation, and the physical and moral suffering endured, while highlighting the harshness of penitentiary practices and the violence of state institutions.

The text presents itself as an implicit denunciation of abuses of power and excesses of monarchical arbitrariness, highlighting the fragility of individual rights in the face of the reason of the State.

Anonymous - History of a thirty-nine-year detention, In the state prisons - 1787 - In Amsterdam
86 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its half mottled brown calfskin from the period, marbled covers, slight signs of wear, rubbed headcaps and corners, gilt-edged pages, smooth spine richly decorated, gilt titling on a morocco inlay.

Good interior condition, browning, marbled endpapers in good condition.

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