Mystère Dévoilé, ou Les Geoliers de Blaye Confondus par eux-memes, par M. L. E.***

Paris: G-A Dentu, 1833. Book. 8vo, orig. printed pink wrappers, stitched. Pp. [viii], 80, uncut. Wrappers a little faded and worn, small ink shelf no. on spine and one leaf, scattered light foxing. A very good copy. First edition. A political fiction, written to revive sympathy for the Duchesse de Berry, who had been held prisoner in Blaye after her failed attempt to lead an incursion into France to regain the throne of Sicily. She gave birth in prison to another son, the child of a secret marriage to an Italian noble, a revelation which destroyed her political credibility, and one that is here doubted as a treacherous lie. NUC and OCLC each note a single copy of a second edition only, at MiU..