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First edition, very uncommon, of Ange Goudar's world peace plan, published before
Rousseau's Extrait led to a revival of the European peace plan by Castel de Saint
Pierre. Goudar proposes to replace the culture of war with a kind of European
republic and anticipates the model of a League of Nations, with an international
army. Within it all the European powers were bound by a system of treatises, in
effect a system of truces, with stringent penalties for breaking the truce. The
offending state would be liable for all expenses incurred.
His treatise is clearly arranged, he studies various reasons that cause war, points in
particular to economic ones, and maintains that the transatlantic colonies, the influx
of excess gold etc have contributed to the instability of the European system. He
concludes with an eleven-point plan for a twenty-year European truce
Interestingly Goudar's work was translated into Russian in 1789, and possibly
influenced Malinowski's Réflexions sur le problème de la guerre et de la paix.
Goudar's peace plan was re-issued in 1760 and 1761, presumably to coincide with
Rousseau's publication Extrait du projet de paix perpetuelle de Monsieur l'abbe de
Saint-Pierre.
Mars 37; Van den Dungen, From Erasmus to Tolstoy. The Peace Literature of Four
Centuries; Jacob ter Meulen's Bibliographies of the Piace Movement before 1899, p.
70; see Raumer, Ewiger Friede, p. 177; OCLC records copies at Cambridge, Berkeley,
Hagley Museum, Newberry, New York Historical Society and John Carter Brown
only.
Arts & Society
36.
GOUDAR, Ange and Sara. Relation Historique des divertissemens de
l'Automne de Toscane ou Lettre de Madame Sara Goudar sur ce Sujet
à Mylord ***. [1775?]. £ 1200
8vo, pp. 46; uncut in contemporary decorative wrappers; lower wrapper
frayed and with some marginal loss; a little dog-eared and spine
chipped; an attractive copy.
An interesting report on contemporary ballet and theatre by Sara Goudar, wife of the
adventurer, political writer and friend of Casanova, Ange Goudar. The work is in the
form of letters addressed to their acquaintance John Child, second Earl Tilney, who
lived for over thirty years between Florence and Naples, and was very interested in
music and dance. The letters were published in a number of editions, all very
uncommon between 1774 and 1776.
After some general remarks on the respective merits of music, theatre, ballet and
dance, Sara Goudar gives reviews of a number of performances in Florence,
beginning with Perseus and Andromeda, with the music by Giuseppe Gazaniga, and
Corneille's Le Cid, with details of the plot, leading artists and the orchestra. Practical
information is also included, such as prices of tickets, visiting troupes, programs of
other theatres, etc., followed by general gossip regarding Lord Hamilton.