CAMPAN, Jeanne Louise Henriette [Marie Antoinette].
Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette to Which Are Added Personal Recollections Illustravtive of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI.
Finely Bound Example of Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan's Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette
New York: Brentano's, 1917.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-149367
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Finely bound example of this personal firsthand account of the French queen’s domestic world written by her first lady-in-waiting. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded photogravure title pages, illustrated with tissue-guarded portraits. In near fine condition. With the memoir of Madame Campan by F. Barriere. Introduction and notes by J. Holland Rose.
Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), the Austrian-born Queen of France and wife of King Louis XVI, remains one of the most polarizing figures in European history, emblematic of both the splendor and the downfall of the ancien régime. As queen, she became a focal point of public fascination and hostility, her image shaped as much by political propaganda and revolutionary rhetoric as by her actual conduct. While her patronage of the arts and fashion solidified her cultural legacy, accusations of extravagance and detachment from France’s economic hardships fueled the perception of royal decadence that hastened the monarchy’s collapse.
Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette to Which Are Added Personal Recollections Illustravtive of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI.
$750.00
In Stock