Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757 - 1810)

[Huck]

I looked for "Chez Deroy", possibly the man, who helped Saint-Sauveur as a creditor. According Depaulis Deroy had died in 1801.

I found an announce about a card game (jeu des cartes historiques), 30th November 1797, in a magazine called "La Clef du Cabinet des Souverains" (No. 315).
https://books.google.de/books?id=rexBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2918#v=onepage&q&f=false

The oldest "chez Deroy", that I found, was from 1794. Deroy worked also with other authors, but Grasset Saint-Sauveur seems to have had by far the most productions with him.

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I searched for this "jeu des cartes historique". There are various books at books.google.com reacting on this, and they contain the name "Vanackere" (as in the advertisement; not available at books.google.com). I found the deck in our museum ...

WWPCM12199
deck "Cartes Historiques. Histoire Romaine" (France)
different printers: Vanackere (Lille), 1760-1790; E.Joyu, c.1805; Nikolle (Paris); Crapelet (Paris)
48 cards; back blanc; dimension 63x109 mm; lit.: Cary Fra 306; Fournier Fra 91

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks14/d12199/d12199.htm

The style was imitated later ... I found this advertisement for an old "Jeu de Cartes Geographiques".
http://www.abebooks.com/Jeu-Cartes-Geographiques-JOUY-E-Vanackere/15400278395/bd
Another imitation ...
http://www.livresanciens.eu/shop/anciens/9588.html
This page knows 4 of them ...
http://www.hjalmar.fr/gal54.htm
The "E.J" in the Deroy advertisement should be E. Joyu (as noted in the Museum text), not in c. 1805, but already in 1797.

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In a text of 1842 I found this advertisement:

Franchises, lois et coutumes de la ville de Lille. Ancien manuscrit publie par Brun-Lavainne. - Lille, Vanackere 1842
..... Roisin
Vanackere, 1842
... at p. II

Then there seem to have existed already 7 of them.

 

[kwaw]

The style was imitated later ... I found this advertisement for an old "Jeu de Cartes Geographiques".
http://www.abebooks.com/Jeu-Cartes-Geographiques-JOUY-E-Vanackere/15400278395/bd
Another imitation ...
http://www.livresanciens.eu/shop/anciens/9588.html
This page knows 4 of them ...
http://www.hjalmar.fr/gal54.htm
The "E.J" in the Deroy advertisement should be E. Joyu (as noted in the Museum text), not in c. 1805, but already in 1797.

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Yes, I'd come across the Jouy deck while searching on the JG costumes and customs style deck.

http://www.hordern.com/pages/books/4109671/e-jouy/jeu-de-cartes-geographiques-8230

 

[kwaw]

I looked for "Chez Deroy", possibly the man, who helped Saint-Sauveur as a creditor. According Depaulis Deroy had died in 1801.

...

The oldest "chez Deroy", that I found, was from 1794. Deroy worked also with other authors, but Grasset Saint-Sauveur seems to have had by far the most productions with him.

From at least 1792 Deroy seems to have had some business relations with JG as a publishing partner.

After the first edition of the Costumes in 1784, Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur sold his rights on the title to the publisher Pavard. This does not prevent him, subsequently, to compete with the same Pavard with other publications on costumes, including his famous Encyclopédie des voyages that also deals with civilian clothes. He will appear in 1788 with Pierre Marechal, les Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus in four volumes with plates and frontpieces. Then, in 1796, the "citizen Grasset-Saint-Sauveur " makes available with Deroy Costumes des représentants du peuple: membres des deux conseils, du Directoire exécutif des ministres, des tribunaux, des messagers d'Etat, huissiers et autres fonctionnaires publics, etc....

...Suffice for the moment to mention, between 1792 and 1796 Encyclopédie des voyages, contenant l'abrégé historique des moeurs, usages, religions, sciences et arts et commerce de tous les peuples et la collection complette de leurs habillemens [...]. The five parts of this three-volume encyclopedia
published by Deroy contain more than 400 colored plates, engraved by Labrousse and Laroque, probably in a workshop led by Jacques Grasset.

We have two other editions, including one in 1806 in two volumes under the title Voyages pittoresques dans les quatre parties du monde ou troisième édition de l'Encyclopédie des voyages [...], with the widow Hocquart. In the same vein include Tableaux des principaux peuples d'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amérique, et les découvertes des capitaines Cook, La Pérouse, etc. (Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1798)...

The year 1796 is undoubtedly the most auspicious for our Grasset...our brilliant entrepreneur produces one after another six titles (!). The allocation of some of them (published anonymously) remains to be established, but the presumption is strong for the following: it is primarily a series of patriotic works, moral or philosophical, in Paris by Deroy. Most are in partnership:

— L'Antique Rome, ou Description historique et pittoresque de tout ce qui
concerne le peuple romain dans ses costumes civiles, militaires et religieux,
dans ses moeurs publiques et privées, depuis Romulus jusqu'à Augustule,
par Grasset-Saint-Sauveur (1796) ;
— Les Fastes du peuple français, ou Tableaux raisonnes de toutes les actions
héroïques et civiques du soldat et du citoyen français, par Jacques Grasset
Saint-Sauveur (le titre paraîtra en de multiples livraisons entre 1796 et
1805);
— Les Trois manuels, ouvrage moral écrit dans le genre d'Épictète. Manuel
des infortunés, des indigents et de l'homme de bien, par J. Grasset-Saint-
Sauveur (1796);

Also in 1796, there is, moreover, libertines stories of oriental inspiration, often decorated with engravings:

— Le Sérail, ou Histoire des Intrigues Secrettes et amoureuses des Femmes du Grand Seigneur. Edition ornée de huit gravures. Par J. Grasset Saint-
Sauveur (Paris, Deroy, 1796);
— Les amours du fameux comte de Bonneval, pacha à deux queues, connu
sous le nom d'Osman, rédigé d'après quelques mémoires particuliers (Paris,
Deroy, 1796);
— Hortense, ou la Jolie courtisanne, sa vie privée dans Paris, ses aventures
tragiques avec le nègre Zéphire dans les déserts de l'Amérique (Paris, Tiger,
s.d.);
— Waréjulio et Zelmire, histoire véritable, traduite de l'anglois (Paris (?), 1796).

end quote from:

Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810), aventurier du livre et de l'estampe : première partie: La lettre de 1785 au comte de Vergennes by Bernard Andrès, Les Cahiers des dix n° 56, 2002, p. 193-215.

 

[Huck]

From at least 1792 Deroy seems to have had some business relations with JG as a publishing partner.

I get no dates before 1795 for the "voyages"... naturally Bernard Andrès may be right with it, it's difficult to get an overview.

Generally it was a difficult time till Robespierre's fall in 1794. One might expect, that Sauveur had a lot of ideas to proceed with his work, but the general mood for production wasn't suitable. So he had a lot of stuff and it exploded in 1796, likely with material, that he already had from a longer work before.

The title of this looks promising ...

‎GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR (J.) et MARECHAL (Sylvain).‎
‎Tableaux de la Fable ou Nouvelle Histoire Poétique des Dieux, Demi-Dieux et Héros de la Fable. Représentée par figures et accompagnée d'explications. Dédiés à Madame la Comtesse de Genlis.‎

‎Paris, Au Bureau, rue des Prouvaires, maison de M. Pavard, Marchand Papetier, 1785. In-12. 44ff. Cartonnage postérieur, (tache claire dans la marge supérieure) .‎

‎Premier volume paru sans tomaison de cet ouvrage dont la publication se poursuivit jusqu'en 1787 et qui totalisa 8 volumes. 9 planches hors-texte en bistre, gravées à l'aquatinte par Mixelle. ‎

http://www.livre-rare-book.com/sear...search/current.xhtml:searchEngine.quicksearch

... otherwise given as a work of 1785-89, so somehow running parallel to his other big work for Pavard in 1784-88 (‎Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus).

I don't get it. It was dedicated to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphanie_Félicité,_comtesse_de_Genlis
... an interesting woman, once the gouvernante (till 1782) of a later king of France (1830-48) and later a sort of "queen in literature".

 

[kwaw]

I get no dates before 1795 for the "voyages"... naturally Bernard Andrès may be right with it, it's difficult to get an overview.

Two copies here, one 1795, the other 1794:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...DxgQ6AEIQzAG#v=onepage&q="chez Deroy"&f=false

In the 1795 Deroy edition of COSTUMES DES REPRÉSENTÀNS DU PEUPLE is also advertised, from Deroy and by JG, the Voyages and also l'Antique Rome.

According to BnF database: Déroy. - Libraire, commissionnaire en librairie et éditeur. - Attesté dès 1793. Après son décès en août 1801, son fonds est dispersé (Deroy- Bookseller, publisher, attested from 1793. After his death in August 1801, his funds are dispersed.)

http://data.bnf.fr/14955589/deroy/


Not sure -- but I think while complete editions of Voyages would not have been available until a later date - it was initially published in parts, initially planned as comprising 4 volumes of 48 parts -- 6 had been completed by 1792 and the first two were available in August 1792 and subsequently a further two parts on the first of each month thereafter, at the cost of 6l. for subscribers and 9l. for non-subscribers...? Don't know if Deroy was involved as a partner from the start, but there is the AMERIQUE volume above from 1794, chez Deroy, and the 4 volume from Deroy 1795.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id... souscription établi chez M. Lescoure&f=false


There is also mention in notes here of a 1792/3 36 part 3 volume available from à Bordeaux au Bureau de souscription établi chez M. Lescoure et chez MM. les frères Labotière libraires:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...DxgQ6AEIQzAG#v=onepage&q="chez Deroy"&f=false

 

[Huck]

Two copies here, one 1795, the other 1794:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...DxgQ6AEIQzAG#v=onepage&q="chez Deroy"&f=false

According to BnF database: Déroy. - Libraire, commissionnaire en librairie et éditeur. - Attesté dès 1793. Après son décès en août 1801, son fonds est dispersé (Deroy- Bookseller, publisher, attested from 1793. After his death in August 1801, his funds are dispersed.)

http://data.bnf.fr/14955589/deroy/

Not sure -- but I think while complete editions of Voyages would not have been available until a later date - it was initially published in parts, initially planned as comprising 4 volumes of 48 parts -- 6 had been completed by 1792 and the first two were available in August 1792 and subsequently a further two parts on the first of each month thereafter, at the cost of 6l. for subscribers and 9l. for non-subscribers...? Don't know if Deroy was involved as a partner from the start, but there is the AMERIQUE volume above from 1794, chez Deroy, and the 4 volume from Deroy 1795.

Looks all correct.

Deroy active since 1793. The voyages are complete in 5 books in 1794. Sauveur already in the rue Nicaise in 1794. And it seems, hat the book is quickly reprinted in 1795 and 1796, so it is rather well-selling. Perhaps this product explains the shooting-star-year for Saveur in 1796.

It seems, that the "voyages" could be composed in an individual manner, each article has an own pagination. This explains the occasional strange sorting of the text passages, which I observed at some editions.

Serveur had long-time-editions 1784-88 and 1785-88 before, so one may ask, when this project really was started.

Nice findings.

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cross-posting ... the last document I don't understand completely. Where is this from?

 

[Huck]

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id... souscription établi chez M. Lescoure&f=false


There is also mention in notes here of a 1792/3 36 part 3 volume available from à Bordeaux au Bureau de souscription établi chez M. Lescoure et chez MM. les frères Labotière libraires:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...DxgQ6AEIQzAG#v=onepage&q="chez Deroy"&f=false

Very well, an original description ... It seems, that in 1792 the author hasn't a distribution address in Paris. Maybe Paris had been "too dangerous" then. Maybe then the relation to Labrousse formed (a man with a Bordeaux name).

Deroy should have become the Parisian distributor after it.

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I went through the Bernard Andrès article (2002) again ...

Sauveur uses freemasonic signs in his letter to Vergennes. Andrès points to Maréchal, an early cooperator of Sauveur, who has a name in freemasonry.

From his biography ... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Maréchal

Sylvain Maréchal est alors obligé de vivre modestement de ses œuvres littéraires et collabore à différents ouvrages. Il n'en continue pas moins à exprimer ses idées. En 1785-1787, ses Tableaux de la Fable manifestent son idéal de société égalitaire, fondée sur une communauté des biens.

En 1785, son nom figure dans la liste des membres de la loge « La céleste amitié », constituée à Paris par le Grand Orient de France. Il est possible qu'il ait appartenu à une loge maçonnique dès 1777.

En 1788, il fait paraître son Almanach des Honnêtes Gens dans lequel, rejetant le calendrier grégorien, il substitue aux saints des personnages célèbres, annonçant ainsi le futur calendrier révolutionnaire ; l'ouvrage est condamné à être brûlé par le Parlement et son auteur interné trois mois. Pour son humiliation, il purge cette peine, non dans la célèbre Bastille, où étaient enfermés les opposants politiques, mais à la sinistre prison parisienne de Saint-Lazare, où étaient enfermés les gens « de mœurs douteuses ». Par la suite, tous ses écrits paraissent de manière anonyme, ce qui lui permet d'échapper aux poursuites judiciaires et d'écrire jusqu’à sa mort.

The mentioned "Tableaux de la Fable" (1885-89 or 1885-87) is the work, at which Sauveur participated. But Marechal participated also at the " Costumes Civils actuels de tous les Peuples connus" 1784-88 ("[notices rédigées par Sylvain Maréchal" ... so gallica notes).
The "Tableaux de la Fable" was dedicated to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphanie_Félicité,_comtesse_de_Genlis
... an interesting woman (already mentioned). Gouvernante of the later French king (1830-48) and a "queen of literature" later.

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I don't know, to which time this (from Andrès) belongs ...

Another address in Bordeaux for Sauveur.

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Andrès gives a list of Sauveur productions in 1796 ...

To this we can add ...

"Petit Oracles des Dames" (confirmed for 1797)
"Petit Etteilla" (confirmed for 1797, perhaps for 1796)
"Le Petit Escamoteur" (confirmed for 1796)

... and for Deroy we have evidence for an interest in ...

"Jeux des cartes historique" (confirmed for 1797)

For the "Petit Oracles des Dames" I remember from the earlier researches, that there was a greater interest (judged by found announcements) in 1800-1802, which was followed by a pause and increased to new attention around 1806-07. Now we have since recently the Depaulis note for 1797 (and this somehow dubious note of 1898 about "late 18th century" with Mme Finet).
Somehow we've no evidence, that the production in 1797 was a big success. Possibly the start of a new century (1800) increased the interest in divination. In the case of Petit Oracle we have, that Sauveur as possible producer dropped out and organized a theatre tournee to foreign regions (Andrès estimates 1802-04). This might explain the observed pause of interest in the Petit Oracle des Dames. In 1806-7 Sauveur was back on the scene.

Actually we have not enough documents to fix such a development, but it looks this way.

The jeu de cartes historiques have the year 1805 with some intensity in the documents, as I noted in short-time research.

 

[Huck]

The motif 47 La Jalousie in 66-cards divination deck ...
see ... http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=248520

... appears ..

... in the context of the conjuration of Baboeuf (or Babeuf).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjuration_des_Égaux

Sylvain Maréchal, long time partner of Grasset Saint Sauveur (in book productions 1784-1793) was involved as a leader.

Sept hommes se joignent à Gracchus Babeuf pour diriger la conjuration : Philippe Buonarroti, Augustin Darthé, Sylvain Maréchal - qui se charge de rédiger le manifeste - Félix Lepeletier, Pierre-Antoine Antonelle, Debon, et Georges Grisel. Ce dernier quitte plus tard la conjuration et dénonce Babeuf, moyennant finances.

Babeuf was executed in 1797 together with another member, 5 others were deported, the biography of Marechal doesn't give details, what precisely happened to him.

From the life of Baboeuf (time before)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchus_Babeuf

Débuts de la Révolution
En mars 1789, Babeuf participe à la rédaction du cahier de doléances des habitants de Roye. À la suite de l’échec de son Cadastre perpétuel et surtout au début de la Révolution française, il devient journaliste. Il est ainsi correspondant du Courrier de l’Europe (édité à Londres) à partir de septembre 1789.

Il se bat contre les impôts indirects, organise pétitions et réunions. En conséquence, il est arrêté le 19 mai 1790 et emprisonné. Il est libéré en juillet, grâce à la pression du révolutionnaire Jean-Paul Marat. À la même époque, il rompt avec le catholicisme (il écrit en 1793 : « Le christianisme et la liberté sont incompatibles »).

Il lance son propre journal en octobre 1790, Le Correspondant picard, journal révolutionnaire fort avancé dans lequel il s’insurge contre le suffrage censitaire mis en place pour les élections de 1791. Le journal est contraint à la disparition quelques mois plus tard, mais Babeuf continue à se mobiliser aux côtés des paysans et des ouvriers picards. Il est contraint de fuir à Paris en février 1793.

République montagnarde

À son arrivée dans la capitale, Babeuf prend parti pour les jacobins contre les girondins. Il entre en mai 1793 à la Commission des subsistances de Paris. Il y soutient les revendications des sans-culottes, osant dénoncer un nouveau pacte de famine organisé par Pierre Louis Manuel, procureur général de la Commune, ce qui suscita contre lui des haines violentes.

Accusé de faux, il est emprisonné du 24 brumaire an II au 31 messidor an II, et est acquitté. Dix jours après sa libération, c’est le coup d’État contre Robespierre et les Montagnards, dont il était le partisan, reprennent le pouvoir le 9 thermidor. Babeuf critique l’action des Montagnards concernant la Terreur, disant : « Je réprouve ce point particulier de leur système », mais inscrit son action dans leur continuité, tout en voulant passer de l’égalité « proclamée » à l’égalité dans les faits (la « parfaite égalité », pour laquelle il milite).

Réaction thermidorienne

À partir du 3 septembre 1794, Babeuf publie le Journal de la Liberté de la presse, qui devient le 14 vendémiaire an III Le Tribun du peuple. Ce journal, où il combat avec la dernière violence la réaction thermidorienne, acquiert une forte audience. Il adhère, à la même période, au Club électoral, club de discussion de sans-culottes. Le 3 novembre, il demande que les femmes soient admises dans les clubs.

Abandonnant le prénom Camille, qu’il avait adopté en 1792, il se fait alors appeler Gracchus, en hommage aux Gracques, initiateurs d’une réforme agraire dans la Rome antique. Babeuf défend la nécessité d’une « insurrection pacifique ».

Accusé par Tallien d'outrage envers la Convention nationale, il est de nouveau arrêté, et incarcéré à la prison d’Arras, le 19 pluviôse an III. Nombre de révolutionnaires étant alors sous les verrous, c'est l’occasion pour Babeuf de se lier avec des démocrates comme Simon Duplay, Augustin Darthé ou Philippe Buonarroti. Il prend une part active à l’insurrection du 1er prairial an III en l'organisant à partir des Bains chinois.

In the wiki text to Babeuf appear the expressions "sans-culottes" and "Club électoral, club de discussion de sans-culottes".

In the German wiki to Grasset Saint-Sauveur the following sentence is given ...

Nach 1789 schloss sich der Citoyen Jacques Grasset-St-Sauveur dem linken Flügel der Sansculotten an. Eine aktive Beteiligung an der Verschwörung der Gleichen, in der sich Der Freund Sylvain Maréchal engagierte, ist nicht belegt. Die Revolution spaltete die Familie. Der jüngere Bruder Andé (2) entschied sich 1792 für den Gang auf das Schafott. Jacques Grasset-St-Sauveur unterstützte dagegen die Revolution publizistisch.

According this Citoyen Jacques Grasset-St-Sauveur became part of the left wing of the "sans-culottes" after 1789. An active participation of him at the Conjuration des Égaux (Baboeuf conspiration 1796) isn't proven. The revolution split the Grasset family. Brother André (there are 2 of them with this name) was executed as a religious martyr in (1792). Nonetheless Jacques Grasset promoted the revolution in publications.

French wiki is very short in its biographical details to Sauveur and doesn't mention any revolutionary activity. Also other biographies stayed rather wordless about this period in his life.

For the Sans-culottes, see ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-culottes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansculottides

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-culottes

 

[Huck]

One text of Grasset Saint-Sauveur gives reason to think about it.

La Mythologie mise à la portée de tout le monde, ornée de 108 figures en taille-douce, dessinées et gravées par les plus habiles artistes de la capitale
[estampe]
Material description : 108 est. : eau-forte, outils
Note : Technique de l'image : estampe. - eau-forte
Note : Manque à la BnF. Cet ouvrage comprend 12 tomes répartis en 3 volumes. Discours préliminaire : "Nos estampes, touchées avec esprit piqueront d'abord la curiosité & dans le texte, on tâchera de ne la point rendre vaine." Dédié à la comtesse de Genlis. Contrairement à ce qui a pu être avancé, les figures de cet ouvrage n'ont pas servi à illustrer : "Galerie mythologique, recueil de monuments pour servir à l'étude de la mythologie, de l'histoire, de l'art, de l'antiquité figurée et du langage allégorique des anciens", par Millin, Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1811, 3 vol. in-8
Sources : Cohen, p. 707
Edition : , 1793
Dédicataire : Stéphanie-Félicité Du Crest Genlis (comtesse de, 1746-1830)
Auteur du texte : Jacques Grasset Saint-Sauveur (1757-1810), Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)
Graveur : Antoine Carrée, Félix Mixelle (1763-1837), Jean Marie Mixelle (1758?-1839)

http://cataloguelabs.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40271184n

This promises 108 pictures in 12 books, author of the text is Grasset St-Sauveur in cooperation with Sylvain Maréchal (with whom Sauveur already cooperated since 1784), and the year is 1793 (a wild year in the French revolution). The work is dedicated to Stéphanie-Félicité Du Crest Genlis, that's the same women, to which already the "Tableaux de Fable" (1785-87 or 1785-89) was dedicated (till now I hadn't the luck to find this text and its pictures ... in the case, that they exist somewhere).

I went through an autobiography of the Comtesse de Genlis (a little bit only) ...

Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis: Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis
Wilder & Campbell, 1825 - France - 410 pages
https://books.google.de/books?id=fL...nd+nineteenth+centuries&source=gbs_navlinks_s

In this I learned, that she had an uncle (brother of her mother), who was send with 13 years by a not loving mother to Canada, and escaped with 14 years to the local savages, where he was made with 20 years the leader of the tribe (see around at page 70). In a fight against Spanish troops he proved his qualities, and in negotiations he traded peace for the tribe against personal service for the Spaniards. After some time he was able to visit his sister in France and to impress the young daughter of her (later Comtessa de Genlis) with his personal qualities.

Thinking about this condition, it's somehow clear, that the relative young Sauveur (born in Canada) and Sylvain Marechal with their project "Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus" (1784-88) and its many pictures of savages found the attention of the Comtessa de Genlis. The dedications to her seem to have started already in 1785 and lasted at least till 1793, the last book project of the team Sauveur/Marechal.
However I don't find a note of Sauveur or Marechal in the both first volumes of her autobiography.

This project of 1793 (La Mythologie mise à la portée de tout le monde) has a strange publication history. The version of 1793 is clearly given to Sauveur/Marechal, but later editions have the "author" (or publisher) Aubin-Louis Millin ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubin-Louis_Millin_de_Grandmaison
... whereby the publishing house is in all cases "Deterville, Paris".

For the moment I think, that Sauveur and Marechal had the project ready with 12 books and totally 108 pictures in 1793. Some time later (after the Babeuf conjuration of 1796) the name "Sylvain Marechal" was poisoned. Sylvain Marechal was free (but possibly persecuted all the following time), he managed, that he could write and publish, but not in his own name, and also Sauveur was possibly not interested to appear in the context of the name "Marechal".
There are some versions of the text (not all 12 books) given online. From these I collected some pictures (well, as much I could find somewhere).

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Some special motifs ... it's interesting to discuss them:

 

[MikeH]

Nice, Huck. The designer uses several motifs also familiar in the tarot. For Hebe, compare the Catelin Geoffroy Temperance.

For Liberty, compare, for the distaff, the Vandenborre Tarot (Tarot Flamand de 1780) Moon card.

This derives of course from Vieville c. 1650 Paris. ultimately from the Charles VI Sun. For the snake, there is of course Etteilla's "Prudence", but also a connection to liberty in some American Revolution flags, which I suspect were of interest then for visual ideas. See http://www.angelfire.com/wa/redwoodsigns/usflag.html: