OGER-BLANCHET
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FIÉVÉE, Joseph - La Dot de Suzette, ou Histoire de Mme de Se…
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685
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FIÉVÉE, Joseph - La Dot de Suzette, ou Histoire de Mme de Se…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
FIÉVÉE, Joseph - La Dot de Suzette, ou Histoire de Mme de Senneterre racontée par elle même. Paris, Maradan, An sixième (1798). In-16, front cover, (2) ff. XII-233 pp. some russetting, contemporary brown calf, smooth spine faded, stains on first board.
ESCOFFIER 88. MMF 98.41. First edition, the only anonymous one, with an engraved frontispiece. The most popular of Fiévée's novels, of which Sainte-Beuve wrote a glowing review. This sentimental intrigue offered a glimpse of some of the consequences of the upheavals of the French Revolution. Mme de Senneterre, a fallen benefactress, comes to ask for a place with her former protégée. Sainte-Beuve tells us that there are also some true scenes depicting the licentious and coarse morals of the rich, the suppliers, the parvenus and the women who seek them out.
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