[LEMAIRE (Antoine-François)]. Lettres bougrement... - Lot 180 - Rossini

[LEMAIRE (Antoine-François)]. Lettres bougrement patriotiques du véritable père Duchêne. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Chalon, 1790-1792. Together 400 issues in 7 volumes in-8, stapled, in modern imitation 18th-century half marbled basane covers and slipcases, the spines decorated with red title-pieces. Hatin, p. 191. Very rare complete collection of all 400 issues of this voluminous and important periodical published by Lemaire, the first père Duchêne of the Revolution and Hébert's main rival. Hatin, who has devoted a notice to the Lettres bougrement patriotiques, says that they are no more a newspaper than so many other periodical publications of the same period, and adds, they are a series of instructions, remonstrances, objurgations, addressed to the people, the bourgeoisie, the National Assembly, the king, to everyone in fact, but more particularly to the army, which Lemaire had especially in mind. The first letter is signed "Père Duchêne, fumiste ordinaire de Sa Majesté, au château des Tuileries". In the 399th letter, the author announces that he will soon be finishing his bougrement patriotic little foutu [sic] feuille, and says that after the 400th and last letter, he will continue his pamphleteer publication under the title La Trompette du père Duchêne. Also at the beginning of Volume I: L'Ami des soldats. Par l'Auteur des Lettres bougrement patriotiques. - Suite de l'Ami des soldats. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Chalon, 1790. 2 parts of 16 pages. Preliminary essay by the author, in the same vein: The reign of tyrants is over; the thunder of liberty has blown them to smithereens. A new and brilliant existence is promised to all French people. Having emerged from slavery [...] they will become the example for the other peoples of the world: they were despised as jeanfoutres (p. 5). Heavy staining throughout Volume V, which contains letters 241 to 300.