Description
1st edition. 8vo. Contemporary plain paper wraps. 21×13.5×1.5 cm. Giguet & Michaud. Paris. 1805. lxxxii, 118 pp. Engraved frontis. Good copy, pages rippled, untrimmed in the wraps. French text. The author was a political radical who was imprisoned during the French Revolution. The play was written to be performed before the Emperor Napoleon, and it dramatizes the arrests, trial, and fall of the Knights Templar in France, focusing on the power struggle between King Philip IV and the Order. The play drew on primary source materials from the Vatican Archives, found during Napoleon’s campaigns, and was one of the first modern literary portrayals of the Templars. Students of French history or Templar history, as well as theater fans, will find this item to be a great fit for their collections.
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