THÉVENEAU DE MORANDE, Charles] - Le Gazetier cuirassé: ou an - Lot 342

THÉVENEAU DE MORANDE, Charles] - Le Gazetier cuirassé: ou anecdotes scandaleuses de la Cour de France. Printed one hundred leagues from the Bastille under the Liberty sign (London), 1785. Pet. in-8, frontispiece, 180, 58 pp. (Remarques historiques & Anecdotes sur le château de la Bastille & l'Inquisition en France), (1) f., plan dépl. de la Bastille, ivory vellum with flaps, title calligraphied in red and black, a little rubbed. DRUJON I, 387 (1771). A very biting, abusive and often slanderous pamphlet, directed against the leading figures of the French Court, notably Mme Du Barry, the Count of Saint-Florentin and the Chancellor Maupeou. (Bound in the following pages:) [IMBERT, Guillaume] - La Chronique scandaleuse ou Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs de la génération présente. Paris, dans un coin où l'on voit tout, 1784, (2) ff. 227 pp. This curious chronicle (1st ed. 1783) was written by Guillaume Imbert and some of his friends. The work is full of initialisms that are easy enough to complete. Drujon (I, 196) describes two curious pieces: the first, entitled "Ligurie, conte traduit du grec", whose characters are : Ligurie, the demoiselle Forestier, a pretty fashion merchant, 14 to 15 years old, who went on to make a name for herself; Leucosie, one of her girlfriends and her confidante; the duc D...., the duc d'Aumont, her lover; finally Biblis, the Dubuisson, matchmaker, the most skilful pupil of the famous Gourdan. The second piece, much more extensive, is entitled "Abrégé de l'Histoire de Psaltérion, fameux critique arabe, traduit du turc, par D. L. H.". It is a biting satire against La Harpe.