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Le citoyen bienfaisant.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--18th century.
- French literature.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Fiction.
- France.
- History.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Amanda Hall Rare Books (Wiltshire, England), 2002.
- Physical Description:
- 81 leaves : paper ; 208 x 175 (179 x 145) mm bound to 214 x 177 mm
- Production:
- [France?], [circa 1795]
- Language Note:
- French.
- Summary:
- Novel, written in sentimental style, on the ideals of the French revolution.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (p. iii).
- Attribution written in pencil on title page "Merarde St. Just" may be incorrect.
- Pagination: Paper, 81; [iv, 1], 2-147, [148-158]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper left corners.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with passages crossed out and corrected.
- Binding: Contemporary boards.
- Origin: Written in France[?], circa 1795 (bookseller's notes).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 900
- OCLC:
- 155925181
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