Complete Authentic Memoirs of Duchess of Abrantès

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Mémoires complets et authentiques de Laure Junot Duchesse d'Abrantès. Historical recollections on Napoleon, the Revolution, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Restoration, the 1830 Revolution and the early years of Louis-Philippe's reign. First complete edition. Paris, Jean de Bonnot, 1967-1969. 16 volumes (complete), octavo format, beautiful full green empire leather binding by the publisher, smooth boards and spine highly decorated with gilt motifs (reclining dogs and friezes), gilt edges, on laid watermarked paper, 250 engravings outside text. Fine complete set. The Duchess of Abrantès was undoubtedly the most captivating writer of her era. Married to Junot, she began a literary career to overcome her numerous financial reversals, thanks to collaboration with a then-unknown young writer, BALZAC. Thus she became the mistress of young BALZAC around 1828, after long refusing him.