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SATIRICAL PAMPHLET

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[Brabant Revolution] Description de la Cavalcade, accompagnée du Char de triomphe, qui sera exécutée en partie par les Ecoliers du Gouvernement, & en partie par les Sujets de l'Etat de Brabant, à l'occasion du triomphe mémorable de la décadence des Intendants, Capitaines, Commissaires & Secrétaires de cercles, des Presidens & Juges de premiere Instance; suivie de la grandeur des Etats du Duché de Brabant, des neuf Nations de la ville de Bruxelles & du peuple Branbançon. Représentation de la Commune de Scharbeeck à Messeigneurs le President & gens du Comité établis pour l'ordonnance & la direction de la Cavalcade qui sera exécutée à Bruxelles le 16 Juillet 1787. [n.pl., n.pr.] 1787.

Anti-government pamphlet containing a plan for a grand carnival-like political procession against reforms instituted by Joseph II from Brussels. The imperial counsellors who are being mocked appear for example as a toad on a satyr (the commissioner to Tirlemont) or a scorpion on a cow (commissioner to Ghent), and they all carry inscriptions, which are listed here. Judges and lawyers are depicted as clowns on donkeys, again with inscriptions.

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Large 12mo., pp. [2] 10. Possibly removed from a collection (no glue, but three stab-holes to gutter and MS pagination 45-56). The six bifolia loose. Light browning, slight dustiness, still good, uncut.

Edition with this precise title-wording not in OCLC Firstsearch (2011), but see the database for others.