Comtesse de Boigne - Charles Nicoullaud - Récits d'une tante. Mémoires de la Comtesse de Boigne née d'Osmond - 1908

A very beautiful complete set in 4 volumes of these famous memoirs. The first edition was published the previous year, in 1907.
Well established in a fine binding from the period in half morocco with long grain black ebony, with smooth spine richly decorated with small gold tools, cold fleuron, fillets, title, and volume number in gold lettering. Gilt tops.
Completely untrimmed; covers preserved.

Decorated with three portraits in heliogravure at the frontispiece and facsimiles.
In very good condition. Bindings of good quality, solid and clean. Slight rubbing at the headbands and corners. The frontispiece of volume II is detached. The printing paper is slightly yellowed, as is often the case, but free of foxing. A very beautiful copy.

Containing valuable documentation on the Countess of Boigne and the July Monarchy. They inspired Marcel Proust to create the character of Madame de Villeparisis in In Search of Lost Time.

Covering nearly seventy years of our most turbulent century.
History, the Memoirs of the Countess of Boigne, who met and associated with all the major figures of this series of dramas and revolutions, are precisely famous. Indispensable documents covering the entire period from the final years of the Ancien Régime to the Revolution of 1848...

Adèle d'Osmond, by her marriage, Countess of Boigne, was born in Versailles on February 19, 1781, and
Died in Paris on May 10, 1866. Adèle returned to France in 1804 and was part of, until the fall of
The Empire, consisting of royalist circles that Napoleon tolerated. She allied herself with Madame de Staël and Madame.
Récamier. -- The July Monarchy was to be the zenith of its glory. The Osmond family
was indeed closely linked to the Orleans family, and Adèle herself was a close friend of the
Queen of the French, Marie-Amélie de Bourbon (1782-1866). As she aged, her salon took a
more distinctly political character

Countess de Boigne - Charles Nicoullaud
Stories of an aunt. Memoirs of the Countess of Boigne née d'Osmond.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit and Co., 1908
Complete in 4 volumes: XXXV-505-434-547-448 pages.
in8 (14x22cm)

Empire, Napoleon, Revolution