Camille ou Lettres de Deux Filles de ce Siècle; traduites de l'Anglois sur les Originaux. Seconde édition, corrigée sur les Lettres mêmes. by [ CONSTANT DE REBECQUE (Samuel) ]. (?)

A Paris, chez Delalain le jeune et Maradan, an V - 1797. 4 tomes in 2 volumes, 12mo. Frontispiece. VII. 228 pages. and Frontispiece. 258 pages. + Frontispiece. 2 leaves. 277 pages. and Frontispiece. 2 leaves. 259 pages. Full calf, ornate smooth spines (period binding). A very rare novel generally attributed to Samuel Constant de Rebecque (1729-1800), "one of the most distinguished men in Lausanne's aristocratic society" (Godet). This Swiss writer, who frequented Voltaire, was also a friend of Madame de Charrière, and the present work is sometimes attributed to the latter (cf. Clouzot), as is another novel by Constant entitled "Le Mari Sentimental" published in 1785, the same year as the first edition of the present novel. "Madame de Charrière consulted Mr Samuel Constant, or some other learned gentleman of her society, whenever her works dealt with political or economic subjects (...). Madame de Charrière also used the intermediary of these people whenever she had her works printed, either in Geneva or Lausanne" (translated from Verdeil). The work contains a picture of social mores in French Switzerland, and was published in the same year as the famous woman of letters' "Lettres écrites de Lausanne". Only 1 copy at NUC (Illinois University). See Verdeil, Histoire du Canton de Vaud. Clouzot, p.36.