Motions addressées à l’Assemblée Nationale en faveur du sexe. Paris, la Veuve Delaguette, 1789.
First Edition. 12mo (184 x 120 mm), pp. [ii], 10, caption title with date on half-title, disbound, front cover dusty, a little dog-eared and a little chipped along spine.
A scarce feminist pamphlet written at the height of the Revolution discussing women’s rights and the place of religious orders for women. Following the section title, a drop-head title on A1 supplies the questions addressed in this motion: ‘Le bonheur des hommes est-il dépendant de celui des femmes? Quels sont pour elles les moyens de l’établir? Les Couvents de Religieuses doivent-ils être supprimés?’. The author of this scarce pamphlet describes as a wife and mother of an unspecified number of sons (footnote to p. 4). She has been identified by Mouret as a Madame Bastille, ‘à qui nous devons la Bibliothèque des Romans’ (see Mme Mouret, Annales de l’Education, vol. II, pp. 35-36). A note before the colophon advertises the pamphlet as available for 6 sols ‘chez l’auteur rue des Poitevins, no. 20. The publisher’s details are given in the colophon.
OCLC lists BN, BL, Munich, Bamberg, Berlin, Gotha, Pforzheimer, Iowa, Newberry and Utah.
See Mme Mouret, Annales de l’Education, vol. II, pp. 35-36; not in Martin & Walter.