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SWIFT (Jonathan). VOYAGES de Gulliver. Paris. 1862. - SWIFT (Jonathan) VOYAGES de Gulliver . Paris: Morizot, Libraire-Éditeur, 1862. [4], 378 pp.: 16 grav.; 260 mm. French translation of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Dublin, 1667-1745), the great satirist and Dean of St. Patrick. The work was originally published in 1726 and quickly translated into French by Abbé Desfontaine (1727), a version that became the canonical reference in French for over a century. This 1862 edition by Morizot in Paris presents Desfontaine's revised text, preceded by an introduction by Jules Janin, with illustrations by the celebrated caricaturist Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier, 1804-1866). ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate