Baron de Marbot - Mémoires du Général Baron de Marbot - 1900

Complete in 3 volumes, in-8vo bound in a hard slipcase. Half-calf bound in Havana brown. Gilt top. Spine with raised bands, title pieces and volume numbers, with mosaic and stamping. Not dated (circa 1900). 390 + 495 + 446 pp.

In very good condition, light rubbing on the slipcase, volumes in excellent condition (see photos).

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot, Baron de Marbot, born 18 August 1782 in Altillac and died 16 November 1854 in Paris, was a French military officer of the 19th century. He came from an old family of military nobility from Quercy that would produce three generals for France within less than fifty years. He pursued his career in the staffs of the French army under the First Empire, becoming lieutenant general under the July Monarchy. His Memoirs constitute a remarkable testimony to the Napoleonic era.