Item 007775Le Gazetier Cuirasse: ou Anecdotes Scandalenses de la Cour de France
1772. hardcover. Engraved frontispiece, 174p. Contemporary Swedish quarter calf over speckled boards. The second edition. First appeared in 1771 and contains plenty of scandalous material regarding the grand resident in the Versailles. See Robert Darnton's excellent article called 'The Devil in the Holy Water: Political Libel in Eighteenth-Century France.lBarbier II.....