Erinnerungen aus dem Leben Ihrer königlichen Hoheit Helene Louise Herzogin von Orleans, gebornen Prinzessin von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, nach ihren eigenen Briefen zufammengeftellt
Munich: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt der F. G. Gotta'sche, 1860. H. Sagert. Fünfter unveränderter abbruct. mit einem anhange. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 282. Frontis. portrait engraving. Brown cloth, contrasting textured backstrip with titles stamped in gilt. Set in Fraktur. Board edges rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed through, spine chipped, light foxing, some leaves uncut/unopened. Good+. Item #6779
Memoirs of Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Hélène Luise Elisabeth, 24 January 1814 – 17 May 1858) compiled from her letters by her tutor who later became an eminent physician, naturalist and professor at the University of Munich. After her 1837 marriage to Ferdinand Philippe d'Orléans at the Palace of Fontainebleau, she introduced the tradition of the Christmas tree to the French. Among other curious aspects related to her life were her two sons: The eldest, Philippe, was later the Count of Paris and was hailed as Louis Philippe II by Royalists; the younger son, Robert, fought for the Union in the US Civil War.
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