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Memoires justificatifs de la comtesse de Valois de La Motte / ecrits par elle-meme.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DC137.5.L3 A16 1788
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785.
- Penn Provenance:
- Norris, Isaac (bookplate)
- Norris, Charles C. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 232, 46 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Imprimes a Londres, [publisher not identified], 1788.
- Notes:
- Privately printed.
- Autograph signature of the "Comtesse de Valois de La Motte" on p. 232.
- "Pièces justificatives" ("Memoires sur la maison de Saint-Remy de Valois" and spurious correspondence between the Queen Marie Antoinette and Cardinal Rohan): 46 p. at end.
- The authorship of Mme. de La Motte, with the reputed assistance of the journalist Serres de Latour and the ex-minister Calonne, is doubtful. cf. Funck-Brentano, La mort de la reine, 1902, p. 111, etc.; L. de la Sicotière in Quérard, Supercheries, Paris, 1870, t. II, col. 647-649.
- OCLC:
- 1325357
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