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La Jeunesse de Figaro

1800120 x 180 mm

FIRST EDITION complete with the two Challiou frontispieces engraved by Mariage.

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FIRST EDITION complete with the two Challiou frontispieces engraved by Mariage.

A young revolutionary with commitments as varied as his pseudonyms, Regnault-Warin or Julius-Junius Regnault, "the terrible pantless who will spill the blood of patriots"He was also a particularly popular writer and pamphleteer in year 8 (1800), the year of the publication of the Cimetière de la Madeleine. This four-volume novel, marked by the influence of pre-Romanticism and the English Gothic novel, was published several times, and Regnault took advantage of the craze to publish it the same year, Figaro's Youth. He gave Figaro a new lease on life and, as the century progressed, he brought to a close a vogue in France and Italy for re-using Beaumarchais' characters.

A very wide-margined copy preserved in its original pamphlet..

Reference :
Beaumarchais in creative literatureEnzo Giudici; in Review of the Literary History of France
84e Année, No. 5, Beaumarchais (Sep. - Oct., 1984), pp. 750-773, Presses Universitaires de France.

Paris,Le Prieur,Lepetit,1800.2 volumesIn-12, Softcover120 x 180 mm,240 and 264 pp.

Clear traces of wetness in the upper margins of a few pages of the first volume without affecting the text.

Bio

Jean-Joseph Regnault-Warin

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Junbient Philadelphe Regnault-Warin , Julius-Junius Regnault

(Bar-le-Duc: 28 December 1773; Paris: 4 November 1844)

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