La Jubilation, Ou La Ribotte Des Mariniers, Maîtres Pêcheurs, Bout-à-Ports, Maîtres de Berges & tous les Ouvriers de Riviere sur la Seine.
Paris, F.-A. Quillau 1774.
8vo (187 x 123 mm.). 16p.
Blue wrappers, manuscript title label.
Only Edition of this comedy in which two Seine fishermen, one of their wives, a ferryman and a barge master celebrate the coronation of Louis XVI in the slang of the lower class. A fitting example of the poissard genre, it is “an invaluable storehouse…for the study of popular language” (Moore). No copy in U.S. collections. In good condition (some spots and browning).
¶Moore, The Genre Poissard and the French Stage of the Eighteenth Century 1-8, 290-1; Tourneux, Bibliographie de l’histoire de Paris pendant la révolution française 21115.
Price: $1,200.00