Aimé Guillon de Montléon
Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la ville de Lyon pendant la Révolution.
Paris: Baudouin Frères, Libraires, 1824. Collection des mémoires relatifs à la Révolution française. 464/449/392 pages.
Antique three-volume set, each volume measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", and bound in dark blue paper-covered spine and boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spines. Books show moderate external wear, with mild rubbing to covers and small abrasions with very minor loss at edges and corners. Bindings are firm. Pages exhibit scattered foxing. First volume has a well-preseved fold-out map of Lyon; third volume a plate depicting monument erected May 29 1795 and pulled down a year later.
The abbot Aimé Guillon (1758-1842) was a French man of letters and curator of the Bibliothèque Mazarine after 1816. He is best know for his histories of the French Revolution.