Letters of the Marchioness of Pompadour: from MDCCLIII to MDCCLXII inclusive
by POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON, Marquise de
Price: $275.00
- Bookseller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: 6393
- Publisher: London: Sold by W. Owen,
- Date published: 1771.
Book Description
London: Sold by W. Owen, 1771. 2 vols. in one, sm. 8vo. With the half-titles. Nice copy in contemporary sheep; expertly rebacked with a gilt spine. First edition in English of these elegant letters by the beautiful and accomplished mistress of Louis XV, who died in 1764, and who was publicly and quite unjustly blamed for the Seven Years War that ended the preceding year. The first letter in this collection sets the tone, pitying her friend the Duke of Mirepoix upon his posting to England, “doomed to live in the country of roast-beef and insolence.” NCBEL II, 1526; the translator remains unknown.
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