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The life of Jane de St. Remy de Valois, heretofore Countess de la Motte : containing a circumstantial and exact detail of the many extraordinary events which have attended this unfortunate lady from her birth, and contributed to raise her to the dignity of confidante and favorite of the Queen of France, some farther particulars relative to the mysterious transaction of the diamond necklace, her trial, condemnation and imprisonment in the Salpetriere, her almost miraculous escape from thence : with many curious and interesting particulars of her journey through several provinces of France, under different disguises : also an address to the National Assembly supplicating a new trial / written by herself : in two volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DC137.5.L3 A213 1792b v.1 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, comtesse de, 1756-1791.
- Standardized Title:
- Vie de Jeanne de St. Rémy de Valois. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Diamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Roberts, Mathew (autograph)
- Van Kirk, S. Frances (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : For P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, and J. Pice [sic], 1792.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois, which is the 2nd edition of her Memoires.
- Authorship attributed to P. A. F. Choderlos de Laclos, and to Charles Thévenot de Morande. Cf. Quérard, Superchéries, v. 2, col. 647-649.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: v. 2 wanting.
- Contains:
- Life of Jane de St. Remy de Valois.
- OCLC:
- 2826637
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