Hautes-Pyrénées - Lot 112

Hautes-Pyrénées DEVILLE (Jean Marie Joseph) captain Annales de la Bigorre. Tarbes, Lavigne, 1818. In-8: 4f., 357pp., (1). ½ green basane, gilt title on smooth spine. A good copy. Shortly precedes Davezac-Macaya's "Essais Historiques sur le Bigorre", published in 1823. While the latter is essentially historical, DEVILLE devotes half of his work to the modern mores of Bigorre. He takes the opportunity to settle the score with La Boulinière and his less than complimentary description of the Bigourdans. Deville was born in Tarbes in 1787. "He volunteered in 1803, was a captain in the grenadiers under the Empire, resigned on the return of the Bourbons, and was a notary in Tarbes when the Upper Pyrenees chose him as their representative in 1848". (Labarère 487).