Essay du nouveau conte de ma Mère l'Oye, ou les enluminures du jeu de la Constitution

(GAME OF THE GOOSE) Essay du nouveau conte de ma Mère l'Oye, ou les enluminures du jeu de la Constitution by Louis Debonnaire. No imprint, 1723. 8vo, [xiii], xviii 176pp; early leather boards with original spine laid down.

Despite the claim that this is a new edition, it is nonetheless an UNCOMMON IMITATION of the traditional "Game of the Goose", a rhymed pastiche as if spoken by Mother Goose written by a Jansenist priest (Abbot) wherein one must win the formation of a new Council, here referred to as a Constitution. It introduced what became a familiar catchphrase "LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY", condemned in 1725 as anti-Rome. Barber III, 880