Romances of Royalty: Dramas and Tragedies of Chivalric France - Marie Antoinette Edition, (13 Volumes) : Memoirs of Madame Campan (2 volumes), Duc De Saint-Simon (4), Marquis D'Argenson (2), A.F. Bertrand De Moleville (2); Diary & Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen (1); Letters of Mlle. De Lespinasse (1); and Book of the Ladies by Pierre de Bourdeille (1).
Boston: J. B. Millet Company, 1902 - 1909. Number 389 of 600 copies. Hardcover. All vols. lavender cloth/boards; decorative paper label and medallion on spine; gilt lettering. TEG. Decorative end papers. Each vol. contains bw frontis with tissue guard and 3 - 5 bw plates. VG-, all vols. faded with a little wear to edges. Vol. I of Madame Campan and Vol. I of Marquis D'Argenson have cracked inner hinges. Very good overall. Item #35525
Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen Grand-Marshal of Sweden, Relating to the Court of France, single volume. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the Tiems of Louis XIV and the Regency, four volumes. Translated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edition collated with the original manuscript by M. Cheruel. Private Memoirs of A. F. Bertrand de Moleville, Minister of State, 1790 - 1791, Relative to the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the Sixteenth, 2 volumes. Translated from the original manuscript of the author with an introduction and notes by the editor in chief (Fortescue). Memoirs of Madame Campan on Marie Antoinette and Her Court, 2 volumes. Introduction by G. K. Fortescue and with a preface by Mme. Campan, a prefatory memoir of Madame Campan by F. Barriere and notes of conversations with Madame Campan by M. Maigne. The Book of the Ladies by Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbe de Brantome, single volume. Elucidations on some of those ladies by C. A. Sainte-Beuve. Journal and Memoirs of the Marquis D'Argenson, 2 volumes. Published from the autograph manuscripts in the Library of the Louvre by E. J. B. Rathery, with an introduction by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, translated by Wormeley and a chronological table by Fortescue. Letters of Mlle. de Lespinasse, single volume. With notes on her life and character by D'Alembert, Marmontel, de Guibert, etc., and with an intro by C. A. Sainte-Beuve, translated by Wormely.
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