LES ERREURS D'UNE JOLI FEMME; ou L'Aspasie Francoise (in two volumes)
first edition
1781 · Bruxelles et se trouve a Paris
by [BENOIST, Francoise-albine Puzin De La Martiniere]
Bruxelles et se trouve a Paris: chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1781. First Edition. 8vo, pp. iv, 467. Bound in one volume with half titles and two title pages in contemporary full calf (little rubbed and nicked), with marble endpapers and foredges, a very good tight, clean copy. French novelist and dramatist, born in Lyon, Benoist (1724-1809) received no formal education but she wrote eleven novels and two plays. She also wrote for Les Journal des Dames.This novel is about the problems of a beautiful girl. "Mme Benoist avait été belle. Le désir de plaire, prolongé (truncated)