Madame de Rémusat’s Memoirs 1802–1808

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Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat covering the years 1802 to 1808, edited by her grandson Paul de Rémusat, Senator of Haute-Garonne. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1880. Octavo format, 420 pages. Pecaline binding. Second volume only. Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Countess of Rémusat (1780–1821), was a French writer. Grand-niece of the Count of Vergennes, minister under Louis XVI, and daughter of Jean-Charles Gravier de Vergennes, director of the vingtièmes, guillotined on July 24, 1794. She married the Count of Rémusat, who became Chamberlain to Napoleon I under the Empire. She herself served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Joséphine. Mother of Count Charles de Rémusat, Minister of the Interior in 1836.