[REVOLUTION] RIOUFFE, Honoré-Jean. Memoirs of a Prisoner to - Lot 273

[REVOLUTION] RIOUFFE, Honoré-Jean. Memoirs of a Prisoner to Serve as a History of Robespierre’s Tyranny. Second edition, partly original, of this firsthand account of the Reign of Terror. A fine copy on laid paper. Paris, Imprimerie d'Anjubault, Year III [1795]. Small 8vo, marbled brown calfskin, smooth spine decorated with gilt friezes and lyres, red leather title label, gilt scrolls framing the covers and along the inner edge, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges. 2 unnumbered folios, XXIV and 228 pp. Joints rubbed with a slight tear at the bottom and two small wormholes; lower cap missing; minimal scuffing on the front cover. Second edition, partly in the original state, of these memoirs published shortly after the fall of Robespierre. Honoré Jean Riouffe (1764–1813), a revolutionary close to the Girondins, was arrested on Tallien’s orders in October 1793 and detained at the Conciergerie. A fine copy, on laid paper, in a good contemporary binding.