[MARIE-LOUISE]. SAINT-CHAMANS Vicomte Auguste de (1777-1860).

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[MARIE-LOUISE]. SAINT-CHAMANS Vicomte Auguste de (1777-1860).
Revue de la Session de 1817. Paris, Le Normant, 1818. In-8, red half-maroquin with small corners, crowned figure in the center, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed (Binding of the time). First edition of this account of the parliamentary life in France after the fall of Napoleon. Unlike his two brothers Alfred and Joseph, Auguste de SAINT-CHAMANS never rallied to the ideas of the Revolution, nor to those of the Empire. Arrested briefly in 1794, he lived discreetly until the return of the Bourbons in 1814 and published after the Hundred Days, in 1815, his first work Examen des fautes du dernier gouvernement (celui de Louis XVI), an apology of the monarchist regime. He then began a political career as a deputy in the department of the Marne, and published several novels and chronicles, as well as political and legal works such as Du système d'impôt fondé sur les principes de l'économie politique (1826). His political zeal earned him the distinctions of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Maître des requêtes au Conseil d'Etat, a dignity duly mentioned on the title page of this work. This Session of 1817 is a detailed and commented account of the debates that took place in the Chamber of Deputies and Departments instituted by the Charter of 1814, notably concerning a law on the freedom of the press. The work was cruelly criticized in La Minerve by Benjamin Constant. A copy with full margins, with many pages uncut, in a half-binding with the figure of Marie-Louise.
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