97-DESMAREST (Pierre-Marie). Témoignages historiques, ou quinze ans de haute police sous Napoléon. Paris, Levavasseur, 1833, in-8, XXXIV-360 pp, red half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with bees, gilt head (Girard). Rare first edition. "Sainte-Beuve emphasized the interest of these memoirs in his Premiers Lundis. They were begun as early as 1815. They deal with the history of the police from 1800 to 1814: the plots of 1800, notably that of the daggers, the explosion of the infernal machine, the Cadoudal affair, the conspiracy of the butter pots, the death of the Duc d'Enghien, the escape of Sidney Smith, the Staps assassination attempt, the kidnapping of Ambassador Bathurst, the Malet affair, the plot of the honor guards, the attempt of La Sahla, and so on. Fascinating, well-informed and certainly authentic, these memoirs deserve to be republished" (Tulard). A fine copy. Tulard, 431.