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THE
PARIS SPECTATOR;
OR,
L'HERMITE DE LA CHAUSSÉE-D'ANTIN.
CONTAINING
Observations
UPON
PARISIAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Translated from the French.
By W. JERDAN
IN THREE VOLUMES
London:
1815.
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[Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764 – 1846)] [Parisian Manners and Customs] [Travel
Memoirs] [Fine Bindings]
London:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Paternoster-Row. 1815.
First
English Edition and Translation.
16mo. 7
x 4¼ inches (17.7 x 10.7 cm).
Complete set of three volumes, thus: (I): (xii),
286, [2 ads]; (II): (viii), 291; (III): (viii), 291 pages.
Bound
by Morrell of London in three-quarter sheep over marbled boards
(with the binders mark in each volume); Edged in
blind, with five raised bands in six compartments,
ruled and dated 1815 in gilt, with brown and green
morocco spine labels intact with gilt titles
legible. Marbled endpapers; with a silk ribbon
bound in each volume. Top edge gilt; Fore and bottom edges
untrimmed.
In good
antiquarian condition with moderate wear to the covers. Front cover of
vol. 1 amateurishly repaired (with smears of binder's glue along front
hinge), with some tightness to the front section of the book. The hinges of the other two volumes are sound,
with some wear along the outer hinges. Light sporadic foxing, but the pages are clean,
with no names or markings.
A
nice set of this scarce and fascinating work, in the First
English Translation.
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VICTOR JOSEPH
ETIENNE DE JOUY (1764-1846), French dramatist, was born at
Jouy, near Versailles, on the 12th of September 1764. At the age
of eighteen he received a commission in the army, and sailed for
South America in the company of the governor of Guiana. He
returned almost immediately to France to complete his studies,
and re-entered the service two years later. He was sent to
India, where he met with many romantic adventures which were
afterwards turned to literary account. On the outbreak of the
Revolution he returned to France and served with distinction in
the early campaigns, attaining the rank of adjutant-general. He
drew suspicion on himself, however, by refusing to honour the
toast of Marat, and had to fly for his life. At the fall of the
Terror he resumed his commission but again fell under suspicion,
being accused of treasonable correspondence with the English
envoy, James Harris, 1st earl of Malmesbury who had been sent to
France to negotiate terms of peace. He was acquitted of this
charge, but, weary of repeated attacks, resigned his position on
the pretext of his numerous wounds. Jouy now turned his
attention to literature, and produced in 1807 with immense
success his opera La vestale (music by Spontini). The piece ran
for a hundred nights, and was characterized by the Institute of
France as the best lyric drama of the day. Other operas
followed, but none obtained so great a success. He published
in the Gazette de France a series of satirical sketches of
Parisian life, collected under the title of L'Ermite de la
Chaussee d'Antin, ou observations sur les mceurs et les usages
francais au commencement du xixe siecle (1812-1814, 5 vols.),
which was warmly received. In 1821 his tragedy of Sylla
gained a triumph due in part to the genius of Talma, who had
studied the title-role from Napoleon. Under the Restoration Jouy
consistently fought for the cause of freedom, and if his work
was overrated by his contemporaries, they were probably
influenced by their respect for the author himself. He died in
rooms set apart for his use in the palace of St Germain-enLaye
on the 4th of September 1846.
Out of the long list of his operas, tragedies and miscellaneous
writings may be mentioned, Fernand Cortez (1809), opera, in
collaboration with J. E. Esmenard, music by Spontini; Tippo
Scab, tragedy (1813); Belisaire, tragedy (1818); Les Hermites en
prison (1823), written in collaboration with Antoine Jay, like
himself a political prisoner; Guillaume Tell (1829), with
Hippolyte Bis, for the music of Rossini. Jouy was also one of
the founders of the Biographie nouvelle des contemporains.
-From
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition.
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