Uber die französische Revolution und die Ursachen ihrer Dauer

[Berlin]: [F Vieweg], 1794. First German Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Very good; some rubbing to the joints. a bit of bug damage to the leather at base of the spine.. 8vo.

Mallet du Pan was the author of the political section of the weekly Mercure de France. His numerous publications and the book offered here take a position against the attempts to remake society and man through revolution. But the book is perhaps best regarded for the efforts of the translator,who added notes and a new appendix to the original text. Friedrich Gentz was a noted journalist ( he was also a contributor to du Pan's journal ) of the day and eventually a close and trusted advisor to Metternich. He was also the author of the political periodical Berlin Historisches Journal and the translator of Burke's Reflections .... into German. His work caught the attention of the young J Q Adams (who may well have gotten to know of him through his contributions to the Mercure during the war in America) and who then translated Gentz's essays on the French Revolution into English to make it available in America. Gentz's ideas, offered here, therefore had an impact upon the development and order of democracy in the post-colonial United States and certainly upon Adams, the future president. See Scott & Rothaus II, 622 for the author; see Einaudi # 3648; absent from Kress.