Observations sur le Mémoire justicatif de la cour de Londres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gérard de Rayneval, J.-M. (Joseph-Mathias), 1736-1812 23048

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. Memoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'Exposé, &c.

Gibbon, Edward.

France--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

France.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

France--Foreign relations--United States--Early works to 1800.

United States--Foreign relations--France--Early works to 1800.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French.

Physical Description:

[2], 84, 26 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1780.

Notes:

Attributed to J.-M. Gérard de Rayneval in: Barbier, M. Dictionaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes. 2d ed. (Paris, 1827), s.v. 23110. A work with the same title, but not identical, was published by Pierre Beaumarchais with imprint: A Londres ; a Philadelphie : [s.n.], 1779.

Concerns the Memoire justificatif pour servir de réponse à l'Exposé, &c. de la cour de France (London, 1779), written by Edward Gibbon at official request, which relates to the conduct of France in assisting the Americans in the war for independence.

Accompanied by: Supplément aux Observations sur le Mémoire justificatif de la cour de Londres. A Paris : de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1780. (26 p. at end).

Signatures: n[superscript 1]A-K[superscript 4]L[superscript 3] (L3 blank).

Local Notes:

Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.

HSP in LCP.