[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE] - Lot 85

[NAPOLEON BONAPARTE] Trial conducted by the Criminal Court of the Department of the Seine against Demerville, Ceracchi, Arena and others, accused of conspiracy against the person of the First Consul Bonaparte; followed by the Debates and judgments on the appeal in cassation of the Condemned. Collected by stenographers? [And] Procès instruit... contre les nommés Saint-Réjant, Carbon, et autres...; suivi du Jugement du Tribunal de cassaation qui a rejeté le pourvoi des Condamnés". Paris, Imprimerie de la République, pluviose et floréal an IX (1801), 2 volumes in-8 bound in half-basane with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurons representing a Phrygian bonnet, symbol of the Republic, double title-piece.? First edition. Full account of the trial of the individuals involved in the terrorist attack on the rue Saint-Niçaise against the First Consul Bonaparte, and the main source on the Jacobin plot known as "de l'Opéra" or "Conspiration des poignards" to assassinate Bonaparte in October 1800, while he was on his way to the opera.