Rochejaquelein Marchioness (3 results)

Hardcover. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. translated from the French, vol 5 in the Constable's Miscellany series, in original publisher's pale green cloth, paper label on spine, covers much worn and bumped, front inner hinge cracked, page edges in original untrimmed condition, browning in much of text area, old stamp of 19thC Dublin school library on front endpaper. Insider account of anti-revolutionary activities in the Vendee.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A lovely pocket-sized edition recounting this French memoirist's suffering during a counter-revolt during the French Revolution. Marie Louis Victoire de Donnisan de La Rochejaquelein (1772-1857) is remembered for her memoirs describing her role and experience of the Revolt in the Vendée, a Royalist counter-revolution that took place on the west coast of France during the French Revolution and saw tens of thousands of casualties both military and civilian. A Royalist, her first husband was an opponent of the French Revolution and was killed during the Vendée Wars; she later married her late husband's cousin, who promptly tried to incite another Vendan rising, leading to his death.This is the first edition to be translated and printed in the United Kingdom. In a half calf binding with marbled boards and edges. Externally a trifle rubbed to the boards and extremities. Internally firmly bound, pages generally bright and clean with age toning and the odd spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Leather-bound. Condition: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.23 in., pp. viii, 535. Handsomely rebound in red three-quarter calf over marbled paper. Gilt title on black panel and bandlines to spine. Hand-colored fold-out frontispiece map. Newer endpapers. Clean interior with supple pages. Marie-Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de la Rochejaquelein (1772-1857) was brought up at Versailles, a god-daughter to Louis XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, she married her cousin, the Marquis de Lescure. After the execution of the king, she accompanied Lescure to La Vendée where a Royalist insurrection was waged from 1793 to 1796. Widowed in 1793, she later married Lescure's cousin, Louis, Marquis de La Rochejacquelein, brother of one of the Royalist leaders. Her memoir, first published in 1815 and translated and reprinted many times, remains one of the most authentic records of this period. Although understandably partisan, she reports atrocities carried out by both sides with great immediacy. (from Cambridge University).…