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Author	Depont, Charles-Jean-Francois, 1767-1796.
Title	Answer to the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke / by M. Depont.
Publication Info.	Dublin : Printed by Brett Smith, for P. Byrne, A Grueber, R. White, W. Jones, 1791.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Pamphlets	Z-PAM v.322 no.4	IN LIBRARY

Description	[2], 35, [1] p. (the last page blank) ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Note	"With the original notes."
	Translation of a letter to Burke dated Dec. 6, 1790; cf. Correspondence of Edmund Burke (Cambridge, 1958-1978), v. 10, p. 119 and v.6, p.31.
	Has been attributed to Pierre-Gaëton Dupont; cf. also T.W. Copeland, Our eminent friend Edmund Burke (1949), p. 217, where the work is speculatively characterized as a hoax, intended to be taken as a response from Victor Du Pont de Nemours, whom Copeland had tentatively identified as the correspondent to whom Burke addressed the Reflections.
	Signatures: [A]1 B-E⁴ f²
Subject	Burke, Edmund, 1729?-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France.
	France -- History -- 18th century -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Added Author	Dupont, Pierre-Gaëton, 1759-1817, attributed name.
Added Title	Reply to Burke.

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