Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d'Epinay

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EPINAY (Louise Tardieu d'Esclavelles, marquise d'). Mémoires et Correspondance de Madame d'Epinay. Paris: Brunet, 1818. Original posthumous edition. 8vo, 407 pages. Fine half-leather binding with lemon-colored edges. Volume II only. 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 18th century. Includes numerous unpublished letters from Grimm, Diderot, and J.-J. Rousseau that clarify and correct passages in Rousseau's Confessions. Regarded as one of the masterpieces of 18th-century French feminine literature.