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Essais en vers et en prose / par Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

Accession number
Heineman 293
Creator
Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph, 1760-1836.
Published
A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, 1796.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
"Le chant des combats, vulgairement L'hymne des Marseillois" or La Marseillaise (p. [57]-59) first published in this collection.
Contains the first printing in book form of "La Marseillaise."
"Chant, ou L'hymne à l'espérance", with musical score: 5 p. at end.
Bound in are the autograph ms., unsigned, of a poem by Rouget de Lisle, "A M. et MMe B," dated 1823; an a.l.s. from Amable Tastu; and an engr. portrait of Rouget de Lisle.
Description
[4], 157, [1], 5, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving), music ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, by Hardy-Mennil.
Classification
Department