Jean Drault

La Fiancée De Brumaire [The Bride of Brumaire]

Alfred Mame et Fils: Tours, France, c1930. Hardcover.

Beige pictorial cloth decorated in blue, white and gilt stamped decorations. All edges gilt. An engraved frontis and a several (10+) full page engravings and some smaller in- text drawings by Conrad ( possibly O. Conrad ). Spine edges frayed. Hinges and bindings square. Text clean moderate toning. Bumped corners. Housed now in custom clear Mylar sleeve. Text in French. 12.3/4 inches tall. 316 pages, plus table of contents at the end. [no date, circa 1930].

The coup d'état of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as emperor. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This occurred on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the short-lived French Republican calendar system.

Jean Drault, was a French anti-Semite who was director of a German influenced newspaper in the 1940's. In style and content, the newspaper mirrored the Communist newspaper L'Humanité except for virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic positions.

The newspaper was fairly successful with sales of 92,000 in the first weeks rising to 180,000 by August 1940. Exposure by the clandestine Communist press as well as mainstream French newspapers, however, ensured a steady, and then permanent, decline.

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