CHÉNIER (Marie-Joseph)

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CHÉNIER (Marie-Joseph)
Lyrical poetry. Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, L'An V de la République [1797]. In-18, 2 ff. and 118 pp.: long-grained midnight blue morocco, double gilt fillet frame joined at the corners, decorated spine, double fillet frame in the boxes, roulette on the nerves, triple inner fillet, gilt head, untrimmed (Bauzonnet). First edition. Edition of 250 copies on wove paper; this one is justified by the author's pen: no. fifteenth, out of two hundred [sic] fifty. M. J. Chénier. First edition of Le Chant du départ. Work of circumstance composed in 1794 and set to music by Méhul, Le Chant du départ was often compared to La Marseillaise. It is said that it was commissioned for the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, or that it was written by Chénier with the aim of freeing his brother from prison: what is certain is that this song was created during the festival to celebrate the storming of Ostend, on 4 July 1794 in the Jardin National (Tuileries Gardens). (See Jean-François Dominé, "Le Chant du départ" in Annales historiques de la Révolution française,2002, no. 329, pp. 89-100). Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), playwright, member of the Convention, was elected to the Académie française in 1803. Her literary career did not have the same posterity as that of her older brother, André, who was guillotined under the Terror, and whose execution was wrongly blamed on her. Very beautiful copy, bound around 1830 by Bauzonnet. Quoted by Carteret (I, p. 171), it comes from the library of Raymond Claude-Lafontaine (cat I, 1923, no. 24), with ex-libris.
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