Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres en France, depuis MDCCLXII jusqu'à nos jours; ou : Journal d'un observateur... [etc.] (v.19-20)
Please note
This item is held off-site and must be pre-ordered before your visit. Please use the link to the printed items catalogue (below) to request this item. See the Access and usage section below for further details.Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la république des lettres en France, depuis MDCCLXII jusqu'à nos jours; ou : Journal d'un observateur... [etc.] (v.19-20)
Other titles: Journal d'un observateur
Classmark: Early French 5/MEM
Creator(s): Bachaumont, Louis Petit de (1690-1771)
Additional creator(s): Mairobert, Mathieu François Pidanzat de (1727-1779) (Other); Mouffle d'Angerville (1794) (Other)
Related people: Mairobert, Mathieu François Pidanzat de; Mouffle d'Angerville
Publisher: J. Adamson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1780-1789
Language: French
Size and medium: 36 v in 22
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277326
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000561259705181
Description
From 1762 to Dec. 1770, these Mémoires were the work of Bachaumont, published after his death by Pidanzat de Mairobert who continued them annually to March 1779. Mouffle d'Angerville was then the editor to 1787. Usually called Bachaumont's Memoirs.
"Contenant les analyses des pieces de théâtre qui ont paru durant cet intervalle; les relations des assemblées littéraires; les notices des livres nouveaux, clandestins, prohibés; les pieces fugitives, rares ou manuscrites, en prose ou en vers; les vaudevilles sur la cour; les anecdotes & bons mots; les eloges des savans, des artistes, des hommes de lettres morts, &c. &c. &c."
Access and usage
Access
This item is stored off site at Western Campus and must be ordered online using the 'Printed items catalogue' record link shown below. Store requests are processed each weekday morning and we aim to make items available within 48 hours. You will receive an email from Special Collections when the item is ready to consult in the Reading Room. The item will be held in Special Collections for 2 weeks.
Access to this material is unrestricted.
Request this item from the printed items catalogue (use 'request here')