MEMOIRS OF THE MADAME DU BARRY. Edited with an Introduction by Eveline Cruickshanks. With Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint.

MAIROBERT, PIDANSAT DE. CRUICKSHANKS, EVELINE, edited by. FLINT, SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, illustrated by.

Published by The Folio Society., [London], 1956

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8vo. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. 167 + [1] pp. Bound in half pale blue cloth, gilt, over pink patterned boards. Spine sunned, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 7 plates including frontispiece. An account of the career at court of Jeanne Becu du Barry (1747-93), official mistress of Louis XV from 1768-74. She went to the guillotine in 1793. By the writer Matieu-Francois Pidanzat de Mairobert (1727-78) and edited by the historian, Eveline Criickshanks (1926-2021). Illustrated by the Scottish watercolour artist, William Russell Flint (1880-1969). Text based on English versions (from 1777) of the Anecdotes sur la Comtesse du Barry, first published in London in 1776. HISTORY/THEOLOGY FRENCH HISTORY BIOGRAPHY- FRENCH 18TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY/THEOLOGY.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEMOIRS OF THE MADAME DU BARRY. Edited with an Introduction by Eveline Cruickshanks. With Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint.
• Publisher: The Folio Society., [London]
• Publication Date: 1956