"First edition of Williams' memoirs of the French Revolution, 'Traduit de l'Anglais', although no English edition was ever to appear in print. 'Her final work, published in the year of her death, looks back to the French Revolution and joins its cataclysmic history to her own. It appeared only in French, translated from the English manuscript by her nephew Charles [Coquerel] as Souvenirs de la Révolution francaise' (Williams, Letters written in France, 2001, edited by Neil Fraistat & Susan Lasner, introduction, p. 28). Indeed Coquerl notes in the preface: 'S'etant jetee de bonne heure, par volonte et par enthousiasme, au milieu des orages de notre revolution, en ayant embrasse les principes avec toute la ferveur du patriotisme d'une femme, elle a ete spectatrice de ce qui s'est passe; elle s'est liee avec les acteurs principaux de ces grands jours. Son salon est toujours reste ouvert...' (p. vi). The work concludes with her "Lines on the Fall of Missolunghi" printed in English and French. 'After the September Massacres of 1792, she allied herself with the Girondists; as a saloniere, she also hosted Mary Wollstonecraft, Francisco de Miranda and Thomas Paine. After the violent downfall of the Gironde and the rise of the Reign of Terror, she and her family were thrown into the Luxembourg prison where she was allowed to continue working on translations of French-language works into English, including what would prove to be a popular translation of Bernardin St Pierre's novel Paul et Virginie, to which she appended her own prison sonnets' (Wikipedia). Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827), novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France. Two other unrelated works are bound in: Comte Mathieu-Augustin Cornet's Souvenirs sénatoriaux, précédés d'un essai sur la formation de la Cour des Pairs, (Paris, Baudouin, 1824) and Gaspard Gourgaud's Discours de Napoléon sur les vérités et les sentiments qu'il importe le plus d'inculquer aux hommes (Paris, Baudouin, 1826). OCLC records six copies, at the BNF, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Nancy, Geneva and the BL." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 96).