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FRENCH REVOLUTION -- A RESIDENCE IN FRANCE during the years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, described in a series of letters from an English Lady; with general and incidental remarks on the French character. 1st American ed. Elizabeth-town, C. Davis, 1798. Cont cf. w. gilt ruled spine & red letterpiece. (Age-toned in places).
The author of this work has been identified as either Rachel Charlotte Biggs (1763-1827) or Helena Maria Williams (1759-1827), both literary women who resided in France for many years and who published (and, in Bigg's case, spied) extensively on events in Europe between the French Revolution and the end of Napoleon's regime.€ 90
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