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Alexandre DUMAS. Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle.
See original version (French)
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Alexandre DUMAS. Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle.
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
Alexandre DUMAS. Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle. A drama in five acts, in prose. Paris, Dumont, 1839.
In-8, green percaline, gilt floral decoration on the spine, title label in red morocco, two bookplates.
[2 ff.], 202 pp., [1 f.].
First edition.
This play, one of Dumas’s most famous, is dedicated to Mlle Mars, who played the title role at its premiere at the Théâtre-Français on 2 April 1839.
It is the first of many works that Dumas devoted to the Regency and the reign of Louis XV. It is set in 1726. The Duke of Richelieu, a notorious womaniser, makes a bet with the Chevalier d’Aubigny that he will seduce the first woman he sees within a single day. Enter Gabrielle de Belle-Isle, whom the Chevalier is due to marry three days later…
Vicaire III, 348; Talvart, 33; Carteret I, 232; Munro, 81–82.
A few minor foxing spots.
Ex-libris by Eugène Le Senne and Jean Meyer.
See original version (French)
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