Memoirs of Madame du Barry

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Memoirs of Madame du Barry
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Memoirs of Madame du Barry

Mathieu François Pidansat de Mairobert
Edition year 1956
Binding Silk
Illustrator Sir William Russell Flint
Weight 0.5 Kg
Pages 167
Dimensions 22 × 13.3 cm

Edition details

Memoirs of Madame du Barry by Mathieu François Pidansat de Mairobert. Edited and with an introduction by Eveline Cruikshanks. 7 leaves of colour drawings by Sir William Russell Flint. Quarter bound in blue artificial silk with pink paper boards patterned in silver. Glassine dust-jacket. Pale brown slipcase. 167pp. 22x13.3cm. The Presentation Volume for 1956.

About the book

Memoirs of Madame du Barry recounts the extraordinary life of Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry, who rose from humble origins to become the official mistress of King Louis XV of France. Her rapid ascent placed her at the centre of the glittering and politically charged court of Versailles during the final years of the king's reign. The memoirs offer a fascinating portrait of court life, fashion, scandal and rivalry in eighteenth-century France. They also illuminate the precarious position of a royal favourite whose influence depended entirely on the favour of the monarch, before the upheavals of the French Revolution transformed her world.

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