Memoirs and Correspondence of an 18th Century Salonnière

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EPINAY (Louise Tardieu d'Esclavelles, marquise d') Mémoires et Correspondance de Madame d'Epinay. Paris: Brunet, 1818. Original posthumous edition. Volume II only. 407 pages. 8vo. Half-leather binding with lemon-colored edges. Contains detailed accounts of the author's relationships with Duclos, J.-J. Rousseau, Grimm, Diderot, Baron d'Holbach, Saint-Lambert, Mme d'Houdetot, and other celebrated figures of the eighteenth century. Includes numerous unpublished letters from Grimm, Diderot, and J.-J. Rousseau, which serve as commentary and correction to the latter's Confessions. Considered one of the masterpieces of 18th-century feminine literature.