CALONNE (Charles Alexandre de) - De l'état de... Lot 35

CALONNE (Charles Alexandre de) - De l'état de la France présent et à venir. London and Paris (chez Laurent) October 1790. In-8, XVI-96pp-81bis-96bispp-97-126pp-. 119bis-126bispp-127-440pp. Contemporary boards. Dull spine. Untrimmed. Paris ORIGINAL EDITION published simultaneously with the London edition in October 1790. Copy with two additional quires added during printing, one, announced on page II, usually found between pages 96 and 97, the other, rarely found, between between pages 126 and 127. Good condition. In this work, Calonne draws up a critical assessment of France's situation and foretells the disastrous period that will follow for France and the French: "It is time, it is more than time to disabuse the people: I will show them that the future being prepared for them is even more dreadful than the present; I will make them see that the constitution promised to them is contrary to their wishes, to their interests, to reason; & that it is moreover an impracticable chimera: I will have no trouble making people recognize that it is impossible for the French, to be without a King & without a government, to become happier; I will reveal the burden of taxation that perseverance in the systems we have followed would inevitably lead to: finally I will prove, clearly enough to be heard by everyone, that the entire dissolution of the Monarchy is the consequence of everything we have done, & that if we do not hurry to put things in order, the Kingdom will perish" (p. XV). It is bound following: DESSERRES-LATOUR - Letter to M. de Calonne in response to his work on "L'État de la France, présent et à venir". Paris, chez Chalon, 1790. In-8, 144pp. Untrimmed. RARE ORIGINAL EDITION published by the journalist Antoine Joseph de Serres de La Tour (known as Desseres-Latour), who in this text speaks out strongly against the former Minister. pages 126 and 127. Good condition.