Collection of Songs, and Pieces of Verse on the Revolution o - Lot 229

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Collection of Songs, and Pieces of Verse on the Revolution o - Lot 229
Collection of Songs, and Pieces of Verse on the Revolution of 1789, the Empire, and the Restoration of 1814, made and sung in Dijon, and collated without distinction of party. Manuscript in-4° of more than 160 unnumbered leaves. Red half-chagrin, spine with 5 false-nerves decorated, gilt title (19th century binding). 69 poetic pieces, elegantly copied in black ink in italics in a ruled frame, probably around 1850. Among which, let us point out the "Hymn to the Supreme Being, by twenty citizens detained in the ci-devant Château de Dijon, gathered to celebrate the feast of décadi 20 prairial, the second year of the French republic, one, indivisible and democratic", on the tune of the Marseillaise. Let us also note: "Couplets made in 1787, against Mr. the Intendant of Burgundy and Antoine-Léon-Anne Amelot de Chaillou, residing in Dijon, about the troops he had brought to this city", "On the prize given at the game of the arquebuse of Dijon won by the Beaunois", couplets in Burgundian patois on the suppression of the Parliament of Dijon, a song of a knight of the bow at the meal of October 19, 1788 in Dijon, couplets on the University of Dijon, the Protest of the Godran college of Dijon, of June 12, 1788, several songs about the return of the Parliament of Dijon in 1788 (including the one about the wigmakers), songs against Chartraire de Montigny and then against Sauvageot, mayors of Dijon, " Chanson faite en avril 1790 sur la société des amis de la paix établie à Dijon ", "Hymn to Nature" and "Hymn to the Supreme Being" composed by young sans-culottes incarcerated in the castle of Dijon and addressed to their brothers the Jacobins of the Popular Society of Dijon, songs against the "Terrorists of Dijon" in 1795, etc. Many pieces remained anonymous, some are from Lacoste, Baillot, the cobbler Gaudelet, the lawyer Roche, the abbot Dillon, Finot, Pataille, Philippe Lang, teacher and man of letters, Baudot ainé, Daguier, etc.
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