La jolie ferme ou la vertu récompensée, suivi des Historiettes d'un ermite, par le Ch** A** [Adet]. 2e. éd. Orné de six gravures

Paris: Cadeau, libraire [et] Locard-Davi, 1837. Old, worn leather. 16.7 x 8.6 cm. 287 pp. + 6 engravings (the last hand-colored). Light foxing and staining throughout; a few marginal ink marks; corners turned and missing; collated complete. Old prize certificate pasted inside front cover. Similar copies at the Universita de Pisa and the Biblioteca Universitá de Barcelona. This identical edition at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The Women's History Project states, "Guénard was almost unbelievably prolific. She produced sentimental, political, moral, educational writing, as well as delving into the more licentious and mildly erotic, in the form novels, (truncated) histories, and memoirs (although how much of these is fact and how much fiction is debatable)." She wrote more than 100 books. "La jolie ferme" appears to deal with the fate of the happy farm at Saint-Lô and the children in the family, with plenty said along the way about manners and mores, about virtue and its absence. "Histoirettes d'un ermite" seems to be in a similar admonitory vein, but about a kidnapping. Pierre Auguste Adet is best known as a chemist who worked with Lavoisier on a new chemical notation, and as a diplomat. He was an ambassador to the United States and corresponded with Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson, among others. He also was known as a writer of fantastic tales.




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