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[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de). Les Mémoires. Paris, Edm…
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[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de). Les Mémoires. Paris, Edm…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de). Les Mémoires. Paris, Edme Martin and Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1668. In-4, (8 of which the 2nd is blank)-795-(one blank) pp. in brown granite calf, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, decorated edges, spotted in red, binding a little worn with 3 incisions on the upper board, some marginal spotting (contemporary binding).
FIRST EDITION.
RECIT SUR SA FOLLE EQUIPEE NAPOLITAINE DE 1647, où il pensait conquérir un trône en faire accepter les prétentions de la Maison de Lorraine sur le royaume de Deux-Siciles, avant de retrouver prisonnier des Espagnols. The work was probably written by the Jansenist and future academician Philippe Goibaud Du Bois, who was tutor to the Duke's nephew Louis-Joseph de Lorraine (Duke of Joyeuse and later Duke of Guise). It was published by Saint-Yon, Henri de Lorraine's former secretary, probably as a companion piece to the Histoire des révolutions de la ville de Naples (1665-1667), a work published by Count Raymond of Modena, who took part in the adventure and was not very kind to the Duke (SHF, XVIIe siècle, vol. II, no. 785).
ARCHbISHOP OF REIMS, DUKE OF GUISE AND PRETENDANT TO THE TRONE OF NAPLES, HENRI DE LORRAINE (1614-1664) was given several abbeys as a child, and appointed to the see of Reims at the age of fifteen. The successive deaths of his elder brother (1639) and his father (1640) made him Duke of Guise and led him to leave the ecclesiastical state. He then led an adventurous and dissolute life: linked to all the opponents of Cardinal de Richelieu, he took up arms against France and was sentenced to death in absentia (1641), but obtained a pardon after the death of Louis XIII in 1643. He then attempted to make himself King of Naples, using the inheritance of his ancestor René d'Anjou, and twice captured the city from the Spanish, in 1647 and 1654, to no avail. He then remained in France and, as Grand Chamberlain, was one of the leading figures at court.
Copper-engraved coat of arms of the Duc de Guise on the title.
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