Trefusis Violet Phillippe Jullian (1 results)

Hardbound. Condition: VERY GOOD. Phillippe Jullian (illustrator). (1st edition). Book overall in very good condition except for sun fading to top edge of covers and spine. Dust jacket is present and crisp but has tattered top and bottom edges with small pieces missing. Has a rip on the back flap. 151 pages and endpapers with Phillippe Jullian's illustrations. 8.5" X 5.75" X 0.75" One of the last works of Violet Trefusis, chiefly remembered for her lengthy affair with Vita Sackville-West, featured in novels by both parties ("Challenge" by Sackville-West and "Broderie Anglaise" a roman ÃÂ clef in French by Trefusis) and in Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando". Was also the inspiration for Lady Montdore in Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate", Muriel in Harold Acton's "The Souls Gymnasium", and in many letters and memoirs of the period. This, one of her last books, follows the traveling 1759 Louis XV armchair through time and adventures. It starts in the royal apartments at Versailles with King Louis XV. It travels to Regency London, to America during the roaring twenties. Ut spends time with Voltaire, Talleyrand, Balzac, Lord Byron, Lady Hamilton, and Diaghilev as it withstood the French Revolution.