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Photo CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Voyage en Icarie. 

Paris, Au Bureau du populaire, 1848.
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Fifth edition.
Major work by Cabet in which he describes his socialist utopia.
Etienne Cabet places himself alongside Charles Fourier or Robert Owen among the promoters of alternative social projects. Cabet is the first philosopher to describe himself as a communist.
In 1849, Cabet went to the United States to try to found an Icarian community there.

Copy which was bound for François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the African Agricultural Union and became the main leader and financial support from the Lyon School of Society in the 1850s. He created a “Fourierist” bank which notably financed the Texas phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to go to Paris to reorganize the School of Society and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

Le Phalanstère en Algérie : Banquet du 7 avril 1848. Journée électorale du 9 avril. Plan d'organisation du travail. 

Alger, Imprimerie de A. Bourget, 1848.
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First edition.
This booklet provides a record of the commemorative banquet held in Algiers on April 7, 1848, to honor the memory of Fourier. Organized by the leading members of the Sig colony and chaired by administrator Jules Duval, the event featured speeches from various prominent figures. Subsequent sections detail the events of April 9th, election day, when Algiers' Fourierists deliberated on the statutes of a Phalansterian circle aimed at uniting them and selecting a representative for the National Assembly. The booklet concludes with an extensive treatise on the organization of labor within the Agricultural Union and the colony's governing statutes.

Photo ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

ALHAIZA, Adolphe. 

Charles Fourier et sa sociologie sociétaire. 

Paris, Librairie Marcel Riviére, 1911.
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First edition.
Jean-Adolphe Alhaiza is a French essayist, disciple of Charles Fourier and the Societary School. Exposition of the doctrine of Charles Fourier.
"This succinct, but very accurate work, also contains an absolutely unpublished historical summary of the Societary School, from Fourier to the present day." (p.7).

Photo GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise. 

GAGNEUR, Marie-Louise. 

Le Droit au bonheur : Charles Fourier, d’après Zola et Jaurès. 

Paris, Dentu, 1901.
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Louise Marie Gagneur (1832-1902) was a French writer and feminist activist.
Essay inspired by the publication of Travail by Emile Zola. Gagneur celebrates Zola's novel, which highlights Fourierist ideas "with a power of eloquence, a depth, a philosophical scope, a mastery that make this incomparable book a glorious and victorious stage in our literary, philosophical and social movement" (p. 12).

Marie-Louise Gagneur believed in the transformative power of the intellectual production to which she contributed: "The transformation can therefore occur today without shock, without revolution, by the FORCE OF THE IDEA alone" (Droit au bonheur, p. 12).

Photo LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

LAVERDANT, Gabriel-Désiré. 

Grégoire VII ou le Pape et l'Empereur au moyen âge. 

Paris, Vrayet de Surcy, 1860.
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First edition.
Presentation copy to François Barrier.
Gabriel Désiré Laverdant (1810-1884), was director of the Phalange in 1840, he was one of those Fourierists who sought the rapprochement of the Fourierist movement with the Catholics, he called himself a "phalansterian Catholic".

François Barrier, central personality of the Fourierist movement, he adhered to the Fourierist doctrine in 1843. He was, in 1845, one of the founders of the Phalansterian project of the Agricultural Union of Africa and became the main animator and financial supporter of the Societary School of Lyon in the 1850s. He created a "Fourierist" bank which would notably finance the Texas Phalanstery. In 1864, he left Lyon and his career as a surgeon to join Paris to reorganize the Societary School and devote himself to writing Fourierist treatises.

Photo [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

Le Sept Avril à Besançon. 

Besançon, J. Bonvalot, 1847.
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The political banquet was born during the French Revolution. In 1789, in all cities of France, the open-air banquet, in the streets, was a new form of sociability to affirm patriotic enthusiasm and the unity of the Nation. During these civic meals, new liberties were celebrated.

Under the reign of Louis-Philippe, the political banquet was reborn as a means of circumventing the ban on political gatherings imposed by the reactionary government of Minister Guizot.

Fourierists, after the death of Charles Fourier in 1837, adopted this practice and met each year to celebrate his birthday (April 7, 1772) with a banquet. In Paris, in the provinces, and abroad, numerous banquets were thus organized, during which speakers took turns extolling the social theories of their master and proposing many toasts.

In 1847 and 1848, this subversive function of the banquet spread to all political factions and gained momentum. In February 1848, the prefect of police in Paris banned a banquet. Following this ban, a protest demonstration turned into an insurrection within a few days, bringing an end to the July Monarchy.

This account of the Besançon banquet in 1847 includes toasts by Just Muiron: "To the genius of Fourier!", Ledoux: "To the organization of labor!", Renaud: "To the confusion of false wisdom!", Vuillemin: "To all the benefactors of humanity!".

Photo [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

M. Victor Considérant et l'École de Fourier. 

Reims, L. Jacquet, 1846.
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First edition.
Rare offprint of an article published in the journal Champagne catholique.
This journal was created at the end of the July Monarchy to defend moral and religious interests against the anticlerical political groups that were beginning to organize. Here the article targets Fourier's system, of which Victor Considérant was then the best-known promoter.
"His ideas of association are destined, without doubt, to play an important role in the future developments of civilization; we must deplore that Fourier has cast disfavor on them, by associating them with the deepest immorality." (p.35).

Photo CANTAGREL, François. 

CANTAGREL, François. 

Le Fou du Palais Royal. 

Paris, Librairie Sociétaire, 1845.
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Second edition, completely revised by the author.
French politician, François Cantagrel is a disciple of Charles Fourier for whom he founded the newspaper La Phalange.
He was an active propagandist of Fourierism thanks, among other things, to his Fou du Palais Royal, published in 1841 and which the Fourierists had to republish in 1845, which had a huge impact. This humorous work certainly steered more men towards Fourierism than Fourier's own works.

Photo [FOURIERISME]. 

[FOURIERISME]. 

Catalogue raisonné des publications de l'École sociétaire. 

Paris, Paul Renouard, [1842].
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150 €

First edition.
During the 1840s, Fourierists led by Victor Considerant engaged in extensive written propaganda, especially through the Society for the Propagation and Realization of Fourier's Theory, aiming to inspire individuals to initiate or fund experiments in communal living. The Sociétaire Bookstore in Paris produced a vast amount of literature. Catalogs detailing their publications with summaries were frequently released, often accompanying other works. The 1842 catalog serves as an illustration.

Photo POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

POMPERY, Edouard (de). 

Théorie de l'association et de l'unité universelle de C. Fourier. 

Paris, Capelle, 1841.
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First edition.
Édouard de Pompéry (1812-1895), French political journalist, publicist and essayist. He worked to bring together the work of the Freemason lodges and the theories of Charles Fourier.
This work was the subject of a fierce polemic with the editors of La Phalange (the journal of the Fourierists of the First Circle). The controversy centered on the notion of free will and the ability of each individual to act or not to act on the course of things. Pompéry was accused of promoting a false doctrine, under the guise of societal theory.

Photo LECHEVALIER, Jules. 

LECHEVALIER, Jules. 

Études sur la science sociale. Année 1832. Théorie de Charles Fourier. 

Paris, Librairie générale de Capelle [Renduel], 1834.
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200 €

First edition.
Jules Lechevalier Saint-André is a French utopian socialist publicist and economist. He is considered one of the pioneers of social economics. The year 1832 marks his conversion to Fourierism after having been a Saint-Simonian.

Photo FOURIER, Charles. 

FOURIER, Charles. 

La Fausse industrie morcelée, répugnante, mensongère, et l'antidote, l'industrie naturelle, combinée, attrayante, véridique, donnant quadruple produit. 

Paris, Bossange, 1835.
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First edition.
The last and most enigmatic of Charles Fourier's books. First volume (on 2) only.
Fourierist exegetes see the beginnings of a planetary ecology, Fourier inventing a practical ecosophy source of wealth and abundance.
Like pagination, the speech is often disjointed, linking demonstrations and free discussions moving from one subject to another.

Photo MOULINIER, Jean. 

MOULINIER, Jean. 

Le grand trésor des marchands, banquiers et négocians, des financiers, de la noblesse, et de tous Seigneurs tant Ecclesiastiques que Seculiers, du trésor royal, des Officiers de Robe & d’Épée, de la bourgeoisie, et des Arts et Mêtiers.
Avec un nouveau Traité sur le Commerce. 

Bordeaux, Simon de la Court, [1704].
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500 €

First edition.
Moulinier proposes a geometric method of calculating "Inner Discounts" as well as a new journal model for keeping double-entry accounting.
Rare work missing from usual bibliographies (Einaudi, Goldsmith)
Copy signed at the end.

Photo SAVARY, Jacques. 

SAVARY, Jacques. 

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce. 

Lyon, Jacques Lyons, 1701.
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Fifth edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

Photo TAINE, Hippolyte. 

TAINE, Hippolyte. 

Les Origines De La France Contemporaine. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1887-1894.
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Major work by Hippolyte Taine in which he places the French Revolution in the long history of France.
This work had a very significant impact, and Taine's interpretations have enjoyed and continue to enjoy a certain success today, in France and abroad.
The Origins of Contemporary France remains an important book for the history of French political thought.
Our homogeneous bound set (various editions) complete with three parts: The Ancien Régime, The Revolution, The Modern Regime.

Photo [CODE JUSTINIEN]. 

[CODE JUSTINIEN]. 

Codicis Iustiniani Imp[er]atoris cu[m] varijs su[m]marijs diuina p[ro]mulgatio. 

Paris, François Regnault, 1518.
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Pretty post-incunabula edition with headings printed in red.

According to Renouard this is the typographical material of Pierre Olivier.
The Justinian Code is the most complete corpus of Roman law, rediscovered and completed during the Renaissance, it will serve as the basis for European law.

Photo BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre. 

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre. 

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques. 

s.l., s.n., 1886.
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Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

Photo GODWIN, William. 

GODWIN, William. 

Recherches sur la population, et sur la faculté d'accroissement de l'espèce humaine ; contenant une réfutation des doctrines de M. Malthus sur cette matière. 

Paris, J-P. Aillaud, 1821.
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First french edition.

William Godwin (1756-1836) is a British philosopher, precursor of anarchism and inspiration for the utilitarian movement.
This book is part of the controversy between Godwin and Malthus about the principle of population. For Malthus, the mathematical growth of the human population occurs at a rate greater than that of access to resources.
For Godwin, the "improvement of Man" (in fact technical progress) will make it possible to compensate for population growth, he says:
"if the earth, in all its habitable parts, could be made as fertile as China, it would be enough to feed a population of nine thousand million people" (volume II, p.212).

A debate that is still current.

Photo [RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

[RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre. 

Auxerre, François Fournie, 1746.
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Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

Photo CABET, Etienne. 

CABET, Etienne. 

Histoire populaire de la Révolution française. 

Paris, Pagnerre, 1839-1840.
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Etienne Cabet is a French political thinker who was the first, in 1840, to define himself as a “communist”.
His history of the French Revolution is conceived in opposition to the history given by Tiers, which Cabet considers a bourgeois view of the Revolution.
Cabet tells its story from the point of view of the People and for the People. He offers a version that could be described as Marxist before Marx.
The first half of the first volume is devoted to the History of the French until 1789, a work which is reminiscent, a hundred years in advance, of Howard Zinn and his Popular History of the United States.

Photo MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard. 

MARY-LAFON, Jean-Bernard. 

Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire du Midi de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. 

Paris, Paul Mellier, 1845.
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Mary Lafon is favorably cited as "one of the rare writers who have understood the history and doctrine of the Albigensians", thanks to his knowledge of the language of the people he studied.
The religious issue is thus at the center of his history of the south and remains a valuable source for the history of the Waldensian and Albigensian heresies.
A very complete copy of the 3 maps enhanced with watercolor.

Photo SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

SAY, Jean Baptiste. 

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique. 

Paris, Rapilly, 1828-1829.
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450 €

First edition.
Jean Baptiste Say is considered one of the fathers of economic science.
This course is a compilation of his teaching given at the chair of industrial economics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
He defends a liberal economic thought: he puts forward private property, free competition and a role of the State as limited as possible. In fact, it is a direct extension of the French school of liberal political economy.

A seventh volume of correspondence appeared in 1833 after the author's death.

Photo [MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)]. 

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres. 

Dresde, Frères Walther, 1787.
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First edition published with the agreement of the author.
August Wilhelm von Mosch (1735-1815) was a Prussian major general. The Prussian army was renowned since Frederick II for its rapid troop movements and the use of the Oblique Order (military maneuver consisting of reinforcing and advancing one of its wings first, while stealing the other wing). This required perfect mastery of maneuvers by the officers.

Photo [JANSÉNISME]. 

[JANSÉNISME]. 

Affaire de Douai : Recueil de 13 pièces. 

s.l., s.n., 1691-1692.
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Collection of pieces published during the Douai Affair, which opposed the Jesuits and Jansenists. This began in 1688 when Jacques Gilbert, professor at the theology faculty of Douai, was relieved of his duties and exiled by letter of cachet following a course given on "Grace" (a theme dear to the Jansenists).

Volume I :
– Avertissement touchant les plaintes de Mr. Arnauld (1691). (12) pages.
– Secrets du parti de Mr. Arnauld, découverts depuis peu. Troisième édition. (1692). (12)-71 pages.
– Lettres À Mr. Arnauld sur ses plaintes adressées à Monseigneur l’Evêque d’Arras [etc.]. (1691). 72 pages.
– Réponse du P. Payen de la Compagnie de Jésus à la troisième plainte de Monsieur Arnauld. Nouvelle Édition revue corrigée. [sans date.]. 24 pages.
– Remarques sur l’écrit intitulé, Relation sommaire de ce qui s’est passé dans l’affaire de quelques Théologiens de Doüay. Nouvelle Édition. (1692). 48 pages.
– Réponse d’un prélat de la Cour de Rome à la lettre d’un Abbé sur la Censure des 31 propositions. (1691). 24 pages.
Volume 2 :
– Plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, à Monseigneur l’Evesque d’Arras (1691). (2)- 68 pages.
– Seconde plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1691). 43 pages.
– Troisième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à son Altesse Monseigneur L’Evesque et Prince de Liège. (1691). 24 pages.
– Quatrième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1692). 128 pages.
– Lettre de Mr. de Ligny à un de ses amis. (1692). 57 pages.
– Lettres du Faux-Arnauld à Mr. de Ligny. (1692). 36 pages.
– Le Vain triomphe des Jésuites. (1692). 45 pages.

Photo [HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament. 

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.
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First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

Photo MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

Histoire des naturels des îles Tonga ou des Amis, situées dans l'océan Pacifique, depuis leur découverte par le capitaine Cook. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1817.
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First french edition.
Embarked as a cabin boy on the Port au Prince which trades between America and the Pacific Islands. Mariner landed in 1806 at Lifuka, Tonga. Attacked by local populations, most of the crew lost their lives. William Mariner was, however, taken in by the future king of Tonga: Finau Ulukalala. An ethnologist before his time, he learned their language and was interested in their customs. Adopted by Finau to replace his deceased son, William Mariner took the name Toki'Ukamea as well as several wives who gave him twelve children in four years. Back in England his testimony remains one of the main sources of knowledge of the pre-Christian society of Tonga.

Photo BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

Recherches sur les coqs des églises. 

Paris, Derache, 1850.
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First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

Photo NECKER, Jacques. 

NECKER, Jacques. 

Compte rendu au Roi par M. Necker Directeur général des Finances Au mois de janvier 1781. 

Paris, Imprimerie du cabinet du roi, 1781.
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First edition.
This first edition was not put on the market but distributed to a privileged few before the publication of the work by the Imprimerie royale. It contains two watercolor folding maps showing the divisions of tax and drafts on French territory and a folded table of Income and expenses carried to the Royal Treasury. The “Report to the King” is one of the “economic bestsellers” of the Ancien Régime. (The printings of the Imprimerie royale were distributed to the public in some forty thousand copies). It remains a source of primary importance for the financial and fiscal history of France. In this famous plea for transparency in public finances, Jacques Necker (1734-1802), Minister of Finance to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1781, details the functioning of royal finances, the principles of its administration and the financial situation of the country. But the author also reveals the lists of pensions paid by the State to certain members of the nobility, with the names of their beneficiaries and their amounts. The scandal that followed the publication of the work led the minister to resign on May 19, 1781.


Bound with the followin pieces :
- Les Comment, ou Abrégé des objections faites contre le compte rendu par M. Necker en forme de questions, En France, 1781
ii-16 pages.
- Mémoire donné au roi par Monsieur Necker en 1778, En France, 1781
32 pages.

Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

Théorie de la guerre. 

Lausanne, Aux dépens de la Société, 1777.
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First edition.
Inventor of the term "strategy", it is with the Theory of War (1777) that Maizeroy completed his work of theorization, because although History is much less present there, it is a manual intended for instruction of young officers on elementary tactics and major tactics.
In this work he states that the use of thin or deep order is a choice belonging to the general and thus gives more flexibility to systems on the battlefield.
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Photo NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
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600 €

First edition.
Work printed in French and Arabic, reproducing the Nakoula manuscript and its translation into French by Desgranges ainé Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763-1828) was a scholar, historian and poet at the court of Emir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in present-day Lebanon) and accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. He wrote an account of it, which was reproduced and translated here into French by Desgranges for the first time.

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