LA TOUR DU PIN, Marquise de

Journal d'une femme de 50 ans, 1778 - 1815 [In Two Volumes]

Paris and Nancy: Librairie Chapelot, 1914. Early Reprint. Printed Wraps. 8vo. Pp. xxxii, 405; 391. Frontis. engraved portrait each volume. Preface by great grandson Aymar de Liedekerke-Beaufort. French language. Light green printed wraps. Damp stains and warpage, edges chipped, spine color bleached. Text block unaffected. Good+. Item #4874

Reprint of the 1913 first edition. Henriette-Lucie Dillon was a witness to history: at court in the Ancien Régime; marriage to the Comte de Gouvernet; the revolution; exile in upstate New York, and return to France under Napoleon's Empire. She wrote this chronicle in letters to her son.

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