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RAGUSE (Marshal Marmont, Duke of)
Memoirs of the Duke of Raguse from 1792 to 1832, printed from the author’s manuscript, with portraits of the Duke of Reichstadt, the Duke of Raguse and four facsimiles of Charles X, the Duke of Angoulême, Emperor Nicholas and the Duke of Raguse.
Paris. Perrotin, 1857.
9 volumes, large 8° format. Beige calfskin half-binding. Ribbed spine, decorated with gilt metal tools.
Volume I: Portrait of Raguse as a frontispiece, 456 pages.
Volume II: 415 pages.
Volume III: 520 pages.
Volume IV: 479 pages. Large folding map of Portugal. 400 pages.
Volume V: 400 pages.
Volume VI: 451 pages.
Volume VII: 419 pages and a fold-out map of the Illyrian provinces.
Volume VIII: 451 pages and a facsimile of the Duke of Ragusa.
Volume IX: Colour portrait of the Duke of Reichstag, 456 pages.
Three facsimiles of autographs are missing (Charles X, the Duke of Angoulême, and Emperor Nicholas of Russia).
Scattered foxing. Ex libris of the Count of Glos on the flyleaf of each volume.
A brilliant general and friend of Napoleon, Marmont, Duke of Ragusa, deserted the Emperor and, from 1814 onwards, rallied to Louis XVIII. He was reproached for this throughout his life, to the extent that the neologism ‘raguser’ – meaning ‘to betray’ – was even coined.
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