Author

Mathieu Auguste Geffroy

Signed

Signed with dedication to the ffep by Geffroy (to Madame Schefer), and also with a handwitten letter from Geffroy neatly pasted in at the half-title. Geffroy (1820-1895) was a French historian.

Publisher

Librairie Hatchette et Cie, Paris, 1887

Printing Details

First edition. Volume one only (of two). Hardback, rebound in quarter leather, with five raised bands and gilt titling to spine, marbled paper covered boards. Top edge marbled. 19 x 12cm, lxxxi + 349pp. French text.

About the Book

This is a selection of Madame de Maintenon's letters. Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, was a French noblewoman who secretly married King Louis XIV. Although she was never considered queen of France, she was one of the King's closest advisers.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition. There is light rubbing to the leather's extremities and board's edges. Inoffensive marginal pencil marks with the occasional comment, and a some minor spotted foxing, Otherwise the book remains in good solid shape.

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