Description: A Journal During a Residence in France, From the Beginning of August to the Middle of December, 1792. To Which is Added, An Account of the Most Remarkable Events that Happened at Paris that Time to the Death of the Late King of France. By John Moore, M.D., In Two Volumes, VOLUME ONE ONLY, Philadelphia: Printed by Henry & Patrick Rice, and James Rice & Co., Baltimore, 1793, 238 pp, 6.5 x 4", 18mo. In fair condition. Leather boards are scuffed at edges & worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine rubbed and beginning to chip. Front hinge is split at head. Gilt lettering on spine lightly soiled, but legible. Both front and rear gutters split, cording exposed. Front fly-leaf is torn at tail of gutter - fragile. Toning, foxing, and age-staining throughout text-block. Ink stain exhibited at fore-edge of 218-9 pp (does not impede text). Binding is intact, but fragile. Please see photos. John Moore (1729-1802) was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these travels. He records his encounters with Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Pope, along with other notable figures, and gives a first-hand account of the September Massacres and the downfall of the French monarchy during the Revolution. His wrote brought him international fame. He became friends with Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Robert Burns and won the admiration of Lord Byron and Maria Edgeworth. Moore was witness to the aftermath of the 10th of August attack on the Tuileries Palace that marked the end of the Bourbon monarchy. He describes turning away from the grisly scene in disgust at the violence inflicted on the Swiss Guards, and he also narrates his visits to meetings of the National Assembly and the National Convention, during which some of the French royal family were present. Moore even attended several gatherings of the famous Jacobin Club, where he heard inflammatory speeches by Jean-Paul Marat and Maximilien Robespierre. Largely sympathetic to the monarchy, Moore takes great pains to describe the groupthink that characterized the insurgents and prompted much of the violence. FORN-MSB-1023-0761-HK812
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Author: John Moore
Publisher: Henry & Patrick Rice
Topic: Travel
Subject: France
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