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MILLON RIVIERA
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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
See original version (French)
217
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[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
See original version (French)
Estimate
€60 - €80
Voluntary lot
Description
[ANTIQUE BOOKS] [LITERATURE]
[RESTIF de la BRETONNE]
Scenes from High Society. In Paris. Characteristic traits, secret anecdotes, and political, moral and literary observations gathered from fashionable circles during the years 1786 and 1787.
Paris. No publisher, 1787 and 1788.
2 volumes in one 12° volume. 216 pp. and full contemporary sheepskin binding. Flat spine, decorated with gilt fillets. Small loss to the cap. Broken jaw.
The BNF catalogue entry indicates that the plates [by Moreau the Younger] which should accompany this work are missing.
The text is most entertaining: it offers a succession of short stories (mostly in the first person) set in the salons and places frequented by high society, along with dialogues and conversations; the whole forms a literary and engaging framework for political and moral anecdotes.
P.S. – Rives-Child attributes this text to the Prince de Ligne. According to the BNF, it is by Restif.
See original version (French)
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ID: 89135469
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