Title: Oeuvres choisies et posthumes de M. de la Harpe, de l’Académie Française avec le portrait de l’auteur. Tome premier 
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 4 volumes in 8vo. pp. [7], lxviii, 317, [2]. Signatures: [pi]4 a-d8 e2 A-B7 C-Z8 Aa6. Calf. Contains illustrations. Handwritten note beginning “la Harpe editor …” removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes the first printing of the ‘Prediction of Cazotte’, at I, pp. lxii–lxvii, a supposed dinner-party pronouncement of 1788, a vision of the near future when the assembled liberal intellectuals who then endorsed the revolutionary movement would find themselves facing the guillotine (as Cazotte did, in 1792). It was actually composed as a kind of skit by Jean-François de la Harpe (1739-1803) in about 1796, well after the Terror. But Claude-Bernard Petitot, the editor/publisher of the present work, where the prediction first appeared in print, deliberately suppressed La Harpe’s manuscript note to that effect, thus himself perpetrating the enduring myth that Cazotte foresaw everything, in uncanny detail. deliberately omitting See A. Thierry, Les grandes mystifications littéraires. Paris, 1913, vol. II, pp. 3-24, quoting the entire ‘Prediction’ of 1788.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102923" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>