AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. -- OLIVIER DE SAINT GEORGES, Charles, Marquis de Verac. Memoirs pour Servir d'instructions au Marqis de Verac... Five manuscript journals of the noted French general and diplomat. Cassel, 1773-74; Copenhagen, 1775-77; St. Petersburg, 1780-83.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. -- OLIVIER DE SAINT GEORGES, Charles, Marquis de Verac. Memoirs pour Servir d'instructions au Marqis de Verac... Five manuscript journals of the noted French general and diplomat. Cassel, 1773-74; Copenhagen, 1775-77; St. Petersburg, 1780-83. 5 volumes, folio, manuscript in calligraphic chancellery hand, margins ruled in red, uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt triple fillet borders; spines, edges and inner dentelles elaborately gold-tooled; gilt arms of Marquis de Verac on spine, gilt edges, blue endpapers with shelf ticket of library Chateau du Tremblay. THE BALTIC THEATRE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A fascinating diplomatic record from the Revolutionary era. Verac served in the French legation at Cassel and Copenhagen from 1773 to 1777 (his correspondence from these posts comprise the first two volumes of the set). At Copenhagen he was the successor to Vergennes, to whom he addressed the detailed reports copied here, on the impact of the American Revolution on the imperial courts of Europe. He reports on English plans to raid ports in the Baltic suspected of harboring American sympathizers. Hoping to gain Russian support for the American cause, Verac cultivated the friendship of Count Nikolai Panin, Czarina Catherine's senior foreign minister. He recounts his conversations with Panin for Vergennes. These overtures bore fruit as Catherine issued her famous Declaration of Armed Neutrality protecting the right to free trade on the open seas. The American Congress then sent Francis Dana as ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg (with young John Quincy Adams as his assistant). Verac was likewise named French ambassador from 1780-1783 (volumes 3-5), and he records his impressions of Dana, his discussions of the prospects for trade with Russia, the hopes for a Russian-mediated peace to the Anglo-American war, and the bribery and intrigues that unfolded among the rival diplomatic corps in the Russian capital. The volumes for 1782 and 1783 also contain the various drafts of the articles for peace being negotiated by the belligerent powers. A REMARKABLE HISTORICAL SOURCE FOR THE "BALTIC THEATRE" OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, an important window into Russo-American relations, and a fascinating glimpse of the American struggle for independence through European eyes. (5)
AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. -- OLIVIER DE SAINT GEORGES, Charles, Marquis de Verac. Memoirs pour Servir d'instructions au Marqis de Verac... Five manuscript journals of the noted French general and diplomat. Cassel, 1773-74; Copenhagen, 1775-77; St. Petersburg, 1780-83.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. -- OLIVIER DE SAINT GEORGES, Charles, Marquis de Verac. Memoirs pour Servir d'instructions au Marqis de Verac... Five manuscript journals of the noted French general and diplomat. Cassel, 1773-74; Copenhagen, 1775-77; St. Petersburg, 1780-83. 5 volumes, folio, manuscript in calligraphic chancellery hand, margins ruled in red, uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco with gilt triple fillet borders; spines, edges and inner dentelles elaborately gold-tooled; gilt arms of Marquis de Verac on spine, gilt edges, blue endpapers with shelf ticket of library Chateau du Tremblay. THE BALTIC THEATRE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. A fascinating diplomatic record from the Revolutionary era. Verac served in the French legation at Cassel and Copenhagen from 1773 to 1777 (his correspondence from these posts comprise the first two volumes of the set). At Copenhagen he was the successor to Vergennes, to whom he addressed the detailed reports copied here, on the impact of the American Revolution on the imperial courts of Europe. He reports on English plans to raid ports in the Baltic suspected of harboring American sympathizers. Hoping to gain Russian support for the American cause, Verac cultivated the friendship of Count Nikolai Panin, Czarina Catherine's senior foreign minister. He recounts his conversations with Panin for Vergennes. These overtures bore fruit as Catherine issued her famous Declaration of Armed Neutrality protecting the right to free trade on the open seas. The American Congress then sent Francis Dana as ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg (with young John Quincy Adams as his assistant). Verac was likewise named French ambassador from 1780-1783 (volumes 3-5), and he records his impressions of Dana, his discussions of the prospects for trade with Russia, the hopes for a Russian-mediated peace to the Anglo-American war, and the bribery and intrigues that unfolded among the rival diplomatic corps in the Russian capital. The volumes for 1782 and 1783 also contain the various drafts of the articles for peace being negotiated by the belligerent powers. A REMARKABLE HISTORICAL SOURCE FOR THE "BALTIC THEATRE" OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, an important window into Russo-American relations, and a fascinating glimpse of the American struggle for independence through European eyes. (5)
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