Title: Lettres de Monsieur le Marquis de Montcalm, Gouverneur-General en Canada; à Messieurs de Berryer & de la Molé, Ecrites dans les Années 1757, 1758, & 1759. Avec une Version Angloise
Description: <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;">8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [3], ff. 28 (numbered in duplicate), pp. [3] (blank). Signatures: [A]4 B-G4 H2. Calf-backed marbled boards. Gilded spine with red panel. Added half title in English. Parallel texts in French and English.</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;">The letters, which contain a monitory prophecy of the revolt of the English colonies in America, are now generally regarded as forgeries either written or translated by Pierre Joseph Antoine Rouband, a Jesuit missionary in Canada, who entered the English service after the fall of Quebec. Of the three letters in this pamphlet, the first, addressed to "Mons. de Berryer, ministre de la marine, &amp; c", and dated "Montreal, ce 4 avril, 1757", includes a letter addressed to Montcalm, signed S.J. and dated "Boston, Jan. 4, 1757". The second letter to de Berryer is dated "Montreal 1 oct. 1758". The third and last letter, addressed to "Mons. de Molé, premier president au Parlement de Paris", is dated "Du camp devant Quebec, 24 d'août, 1759".</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;">See C. D. MacDougall, Hoaxes. New York, 1958 (2nd ed.), p. 125; J. Winsor, Narrative &amp; critical history of America. Boston &amp; New York, 1887, vol. 5, p. 606, and references there given; A. &amp; A. De Backer &amp; C. Sommervogel, Bibliographie de la Compagnie de Jésus. Brussels, 1896, t. 7 (Roubaud); ESTC, T38492.</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_4103144" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>