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Montalembert, Charles; Henry of Orleans; Montravel, Lou...
UN DEBAT SUR L'INDE Bound with: Lettre Sur L'histoire De France; La Plata Au Point De Vue Des Interets Commerciaux De La Frnace; Buenos-Ayres Sa Situation Presente; La Paraguay et Les Republiques De La Plata; La Russie et Ses Chemins De Fer
London; Paris et al. Various Half-Leather. A Very Good Copy Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 392pp. Bound with: LETTRE SUR L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE ADDRESS AU PRINCE NAPOLEON by M. le duc d'Aumale; LA PLATE AU POINT DE VUE DES IN TERETS COMMERCIAUX by l. Tardy de Montravel; BUENOS AYRES, SA SITUATION PRESENTEby M. Balcarce; LE PARAGUAY ET LES REPUBLIQUES DE LA PLATA by Th. Page; and LA RUSSIE ET SES CHEMINS DE FER by Emile Barrault. Montalembert's Un Debat led to his persecution and imprisonment; the second booklet transation: Letter on French History addressed to Prince Napoleon (Napoleon's cousin}, this booklet was also siezed leading to the arrest and condemnation of the editor. The next three deal with issues of the Rio de la Plata in terms of politics, economics and related issues, The final booklet deals with Russia and its Railroads. Barrault was devoted to the railroad in Russia, and the construction of network of 4,000 kilometers shortly after the Crimean War. These were all controversial issues especially to the French government which used censorship, imprisonment and death in an attempt to prevent their wider distribtuion.
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