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women have to be aware of the fact that the army protects their lives and
livelihood. Therefore they are advised to refrain from frivolous activity,
such as dancing, the theatre or idle gossip. Not only are women requested
to support the cause, they are also asked to instill patriotic fervour into their
husbands and dependents. Morardo cites numerous writings, from classical
texts to contemporary literature to support the claim that women occasionally
also actively participate in battle, and advises his contemporaries to
emulate these classical examples.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
218 MORELLET, André. Observations sur un ouvrage anonyme,
intitulé: Remarques morales, philosophiques et grammaticales sur
le Dictionnaire de l’Academie Françoise. Paris, l’Imprimerie de
l’Institution des Sourds-Muets. 1807. £200
8vo, pp. [iv], 79; recent buV wrappers.
First and only edition of Morellet’s spirited and detailed response to
Feydel’s criticism of the new edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie
Française. The Wfth edition had been practically ready for the press when the
Revolution broke out and the Académie was suppressed. The manuscripts
were preserved, thanks largely to Morellet and publication was eventually
undertaken by the Comité de l’Instruction Publique, in 1798. The pro-revolutionary
standpoint met with widespread opposition, especially because the
dictionary included some of the politically charged terminology of the revolution.
Even though Morellet himself was not in favour of including the
more extreme propaganda phrases of the French Revolution, he defends
the Dictionnaire against the more robust accusations by Feydel, who complained
about the large number of lower class expressions included in the
dictionary. Morellet analyses each of his complaints and gives his
deWnitions of the terms in question.
Cioranescu 47356.
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219 MORELLET, André Abbé de. Prospectus d’un Nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce En cinq volumes in-folio proposés par
Souscription... Paris, Les Freres Estienne, rue S. Jacques, à la Vertu.
1769. £7500
8vo, pp. viii, 381, [1] approbation, [ii], 34 ‘Catalogue d’une Bibliothèque
d’Économie Politique, formé pour le Travail du nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce’; typographic head and tail-pieces; occasional
light spotting and foxing, faint dampstain to gutter margin in signature a,
and barely noticeable traces of dampstaining at the head; contemporary
full calf, spine gilt in compartments, head of spine and upper joint
expertly repaired; from the library of the St. Bernard monastery in Paris,
with manuscript inscription to title, with the note ‘Ex Dono Autoris’.
First and only edition, very rare, of Morellet’s projected plan for a new commercial
dictionary, designed to supersede Savary’s Dictionnaire de Commerce.
Morellet gives a very detailed outline of the projected work –
discusses previous attempts at commercial dictionaries and then sets out the
diVerent areas covered by his dictionary. But despite the large library he
accumulated for the purpose (a catalogue of the most important works is
included in this volume) and the enormous amount of work he put into its
preparation it was never published. Exactly thirty years later, in 1799,
Peuchet published his commercial dictionary which was based on the material
collected by Morellet. Of particular interest is the above-mentioned