Mémoires de la vie du comte de Grammont ;
contenant particulièrement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le regne de Charles II.
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| Language: | French |
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Cologne :
Pierre Marteau,
1713.
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| Notes: | "Original edition." A classic account of the court of Charles II, based on the memoirs of Philibert, comte de Gramont (1621-1707), but with much embroidery by his brother-in-law, Anthony Hamilton (1646?-1720). Hamilton, an Irishman of Scots extraction, grandson of the first Earl of Abercorn, fought as a Jacobite officer at the Boyne, and settled in France after the exile of James II. The first part of this book was probably dictated to Hamilton to Gramont - a libertine and a gambler who was banished from the court of Louis XIV for his immorality; the second part, probably entirely by Hamilton, is an imaginative and scandalous history of the restoration court. The book is renowned for its style. Physical description: iv, 426, [2] p. ; 17 cm. more |
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