(AUCTION CATALOGUE: TRUDAINE, Charles Louis, l'aîné).

Catalogue des Livres et Manuscrits précieux, provenant de la Bibliothèque de Ch.-L. Trudaine, apres le décés de Mme sa Veuve,

dont la Vente se fera en sa Maison…le 25 Nivôse an XII (16 Janvier 1804). 1 p.l., x, 467 pp. 8vo, attractive antique mottled half-calf & speckled boards, flat spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Bleuet, 1803. The Trudaine brothers, Charles Louis and Charles Michel, presided over a famous circle of liberal intellectuals — la société Trudaine — to which Jacques Louis David and André Chénier belonged in the years before the Revolution. The Trudaine family belonged to the liberal “haute bourgeoisie,” which was initially favorable to the Revolution. However, Charles Louis and his younger brother were ultimately imprisoned and both sent to the scaffold. The older brother’s widow, Louise Micault de Courbeton (1769-1802), inherited the library which was sold two years after her death. Madame Trudaine was the subject of a portrait by David, painted 1791-92 and now in the Louvre( the portrait, considered to be one of David’s greatest, remained unfinished due to a quarrel over the Terror, which David supported). The Trudaine family was wealthy and important: the brothers’ grandfather, Daniel, had created France’s modern system of roads and bridges. Their father had been a powerful minister of finance and their mother presided over one of the great salons of the time, hosting Turgot and other enlightened ministers, Lavoisier, and Condorcet. This was an important library, known to be one of the finest in Paris. Most of the books are from the 18th century. The collections of science and natural history are particularly appealing. 3066 lots, priced throughout in a contemporary hand. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions...1643-1830, 449. N.B.G., 45, cols. 679-80. Peignot, p. 127–“curieux pour les anonymes.”

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