23-BEAULIEU (Claude-François). Essais historiques sur les causes et les effets de la Révolution de France, avec des notes sur quelques évènemens et quelques institutions. Paris, Maradan, An IX-1801-An XI-1803, 6 vol. in-8, plum half-calf, smooth spine decorated throughout (Romantic binding). First and only published edition. Member of the Feuillants and journalist (Nouvelles de Versailles, Nouvelles de Paris), imprisoned during the Terror and deported in 1797, Claude François Beaulieu wrote one of the first general histories of the Revolution. His participation in the unfolding of events gives his work the character of a testimonial. A good copy. Ex-libris Harcourt.