[FRANCHE-COMTÉ - CANUEL (Simon)]. Defend yourself: don't sla - Lot 253

[FRANCHE-COMTÉ - CANUEL (Simon)]. Defend yourself: don't slander, or Letter from M. Lafont, Senior Officer, to M. Canuel, Lieutenant-General. Lons-le-Saunier, De l'Imprimerie de Gauthier Neveu, 1818. In-12 bradel, plum half-percaline, spine decorated (early 20th c. binding). 20 pp. pamphlet denouncing the slander of General Simon Canuel and recalling his conduct during the Vendée wars: "And it is you, Mr. General, you the devastator of the Vendée and Berry, the terror of your fellow citizens, the terror of your kinsmen in appalling times; it is you who reproach me for my conduct in the provinces of the Midi, in 1815! it is you who accuse me of having betrayed my word of honor![...] " From the Ambroise de Casabianca & Kergorlay libraries, with bookplates.