The British Mercury, Or, Historical And Critical Views Of The Events Of The Present Times

by Jacques Mallet du Pan (Creator)

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The British Mercury, Or, Historical And Critical Views Of The Events Of The Present Times; Volume 1 Of The British Or, Historical And Critical Views Of The Events Of The Present Times; Mallet Du Pan (Jacques, M.)

Mallet du Pan (Jacques, M.)

T. Cadell, Jr. and W. Davies, 1798

History; Europe; General; Europe; History / Europe / France; History / Europe / General; History / General

610 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2013

About the author

Jacques François Mallet du Pan was a political writer and journalist, who took up the Royalist cause during the French Revolution.
He was educated at Geneva, and through the influence of Voltaire obtained a professorship at Cassel. He soon, however, resigned this post, and going to London joined H. S. N. Linguet in the production of his Annales politiques (1778-1780). During Linguet's imprisonment in the Bastille Mallet du Pan continued the Annales by himself (1781-1783); but Linguet resented this on his release, and Mallet du Pan changed the title of his own publication to Mdmoires historiques (1783). From 1783 he incoporated this work with the Mercure de France in Paris, the political direction of which had been placed in his hands. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he sided with the Royalists, and was sent on a mission (1791-1792) by Louis XVI. to Frankfort to try and secure the sympathy and intervention of the German princes. From Germany he travelled to Switzerland and from Switzerland to Brussels in the Royalist interest. He published a number of anti-revolutionary pamphlets, and a violent attack on Bonaparte and the Directory resulted in his being exiled in 1797 to Berne. In 1798 he came to London, where he founded the Mercure britannique. He died at Richmond, Surrey.