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GENTLE EDUCATION IN NAPOLEONIC FRANCE
8vo (201 × 131 mm), pp. 32. Uncut and unopened in original blue paper wrappers, title in contemporary manuscript to upper cover. A very good copy.
A discourse on the utility of “douceur” as opposed to “severité” in public education, given to pupils of the Lycée at Versailles at their annual prize-giving. Taillefer was a leading educationalist of the Napoleonic era, and “inspecteur” of the Académie de Paris, who would have been at the heart of the newly established system of Lycées adobted throughout France in 1802. Though his discourse would have been new to the pupils at Versailles, the library catalogues tell us that he had given a version of the speech at least once before, at the Institution polytechnique of Paris, which was printed in 1807.
Worldcat lists the Bn and Sainte-Genevieve copies only and a single copy (Bn) of the 1807 version.
£180.00
(equal to approx. US$285.03* or €222.61* for 22 May 2012)
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