Le Comte D'Artois, Roi de Botani-Bay, A Tous les Fuyards, Traitres, Proscrits de la France.
[Paris?]: [August 1789?].
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
19, [1]pp. 8vo. Self-wrappers, contemporary ink inscription on title "Aoust 1789". COPAC lists only two copies.
Item #365069
A rare satirical pamphlet written under the guise of the Count of Artois (later King Charles X), styled here as the 'King of Botany Bay'. The author, through the voice of the count, entreats all those who fled France during the Revolution and their supporters in France and England to join the future king of France in the penal colony of Botany Bay. He goes on to imply that these traitors to France are no better than the lowliest of English convicts being transported by the British government to what he considers 'a new country made especially for them' ('le vaste continent des Terres Australes leur offre un pays nouveau, asyle fait pour eux.').
