LAVAUX (Christophe). - Lot 291

LAVAUX (Christophe). Manuel du tribunal de cassation, ou Règles de civil, criminal, correctional and police justice de police dans ses rapports avec l'institution of the tribunal de cassation. Paris: Fauvelle et Sagnier, Rondonneau an VI-1797. In-12, XII212 p., red Russian leather, smooth spine decorated, gilt title, roulette edging the boards and author's ex-dono on upper cover, gilded gilt fillet at the edges, gilt edges. gilt edges. A fine copy, printed on wove paper wide margins. It bears the name of its recipient of the tribute: "Au citoyen Reübel, membre du Directoire exécutif, hommage de l'auteur " Jean-François Rewbel, dit Reübel (1747-1807), conventionnel, was born and died in Colmar. An ardent revolutionary, he was one of one of Louis XVI's accusers. He remained during the Terror, but reappeared after the 9th of Thermidor thermidor at the Convention, which he chaired. He joined the Comité de Salut Public, and was elected member and president of the Directoire as soon as it was 1795, and later became a member of the Conseil des Anciens