MADAME DE CHEVREUSE: Nouvelles Etudes Sur Les Femmes Illustres et La Societe du XVIIe Siecle
by COUSIN, Victor
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Paris: Didier et Cie, 1862. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 544 pages, contemporary greenish cloth and boards, corners bumped, several fore-edge margins bumped, some foxing. Ex libiris Princesse Antoine Radziwill (with loss at lower right corner), faced by the bookplate of Prince Stanislaw Radziwill (aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-chief of the Polish Forces under Jozef Pilsudski in German-occupied Poland.
Marie de Rohan (d.1679) became the Duchesse de Chevreuse, having formerly been Madamoiselle de Montblazon, and later the Duchesse de Luynes. The Duchesse was involved at the French Court, and allegedly involved in many intrigues and plots for or against the other nations of Europe. References to Chevreuse appear in Alexander Dumas, a tragic opera by Donizetti, and in an episode of Doctor Who. This is the first of multiple biographies which she inspired.
Marie de Rohan (d.1679) became the Duchesse de Chevreuse, having formerly been Madamoiselle de Montblazon, and later the Duchesse de Luynes. The Duchesse was involved at the French Court, and allegedly involved in many intrigues and plots for or against the other nations of Europe. References to Chevreuse appear in Alexander Dumas, a tragic opera by Donizetti, and in an episode of Doctor Who. This is the first of multiple biographies which she inspired.
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- Seller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2020433
- Title
- MADAME DE CHEVREUSE
- Author
- COUSIN, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
- Publisher
- Didier et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- cardinal mazarin marie de rohan chevreuse antoine radziwill stanislaw french aristocracy lithuania poland
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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