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DESFONTAINES, M
Paris en 1840, Reveries philosophiques.
Chez les Marchands de … Paris, 1841. Octavo, some light foxing, library stamp on title; a good copyin simple black quarter morocco, gilt banding and title to spine. First edition, and very rare: an extended paean to the unalterable Majesty that directs and inhabits the world.
In the form of a series of epistles addressed to the ingenue 'modeste Eugénie', Desfontaines takes it upon himself to present a synthesis of world history, in the process helping her journey into the immense world where spirit flies free on the wings of imagination: 'dans ces immenses régions où l'esprit libre d'entraves aime a s'égarer sur les ailes de l'imagination'. In the process, he discusses topics as diverse as Mesmer, the Dalai-Lama, and the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse, all of which are sublimated to his belief in the world as symbiotic whole. Desfontaines himself claims to be doing nothing more than rehearsing the general parameters of more famous examples of the ideal society such as Augustine's City of God.
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