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ABRANTES (duchesse d')
Complete and authentic memoirs of Laure Junot Duchesse d'Abrantès. Historical recollections on Napoleon, the Revolution, the Directory, the Consulate, the Empire, the Restoration, the Revolution of 1830 and the early years of the reign of Louis‑Philippe. First complete edition.
A Paris, chez Jean de Bonnot, 1967‑1969. 16 volumes, (complete) in-8°, beautiful full green empire leather binding of the publisher, flat and smooth spine richly decorated with gold motifs (lying dogs and friezes), gold head,
on watermarked laid paper to the form, 250 illustrations outside the text..
Very good set
"The Duchess of Abrantès is undoubtedly the most fascinating writer of her time. Married to Junot, she began a literary career to offset her multiple reverses of fortune, and this thanks to the collaboration of a young writer, then little known, Balzac... Thus she became the lover of the young Balzac around 1828, after having long refused him."
















