[Picardie - DEVERITY (Louis Alexandre)]. History of the Coun - Lot 191

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[Picardie - DEVERITY (Louis Alexandre)]. History of the Coun - Lot 191
[Picardie - DEVERITY (Louis Alexandre)]. History of the County of Ponthieu, of Montreuil, and of the City of Abbeville its capital: with the note of their men worthy of memory. London and Abbeville, de Vérité fils, 1767. 2 vol. in-12 calf, spine ribbed, p. de titre et de tom. en mar. rouge et vert, tr. rouges (contemporary binding). Epiderminations on a plate, qqs ff. burnished. Louis Alexandre de Vérité "son" (1743-1818) was printer of the King, (bookseller-) printer of the Count of Artois (1777) then printer of the department of the Somme (1790). Son and successor of the Abbeville bookseller Alexandre Devérité, he worked from 1764 in association with his mother, Alexandre Devérité's widow, in business until about 1774. A lawyer by training, he is also the author of numerous political brochures and historical works on Picardy in particular, and was a Member of the Academy of Amiens and the Abbeville Emulation Society. Received as a printer by decree of the Council of 29 May 1775, he was temporarily dismissed by decree of the Council of 6 July 1780. Officer of the National Guard (1790), he was elected municipal officer of Abbeville in 1791. He was a deputy for the Somme at the Convention and was arrested in July 1793 as a suspect of complicity with the Girondins. He went into hiding in Paris and was not reinstated in his duties until Oct. (or Dec.) 1794. Re-elected deputy to the Council of Elders, he was not removed from the list of emigrants until January 1796. Judge at the civil court of Abbeville from November 1799 to 1811. His sons Charles-Alexandre and Gilbert-Marie Devérité were successively licensed as printers in Abbeville on 15 July 1811 and 1 September 1816, the latter replacing the former.
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