Creator
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794).
Title
Memoires de Gibbon.
Publisher
Paris: Chez le Directeur de la Décade philosophique. An Ve. de la République ,
Date
[1797].
Description
In this translation of Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, published during the French Revolution, his letter dated February 18, 1793, was changed:
The struggle is at length over, and poor de Severy [Salomon de Severy, a close friend in Lausanne] is no more!
La lutte est enfin terminée; le malheureux Louis [Louis XVI, guillotined January 21, 1793] n’est plus.
The anonymous translator notes that he left Gibbon’s French (“anglicisms”) uncorrected; however, someone (translator or printer) adapted Gibbon’s English to reflect contemporary events in France. A fellow Grolierite found this book for me in a dealer’s catalogue. I discovered the Gibboniana.
The struggle is at length over, and poor de Severy [Salomon de Severy, a close friend in Lausanne] is no more!
La lutte est enfin terminée; le malheureux Louis [Louis XVI, guillotined January 21, 1793] n’est plus.
The anonymous translator notes that he left Gibbon’s French (“anglicisms”) uncorrected; however, someone (translator or printer) adapted Gibbon’s English to reflect contemporary events in France. A fellow Grolierite found this book for me in a dealer’s catalogue. I discovered the Gibboniana.
Source
George Edwards