Repertoire General des Ouvrages Modernes Relatifs au Dix-Huitieme Siecle Francais (1715-1789) Suivi du Supplément, Table Méthodique (1927)

Vicomte Charles du Peloux ; [Susan Mary Alsop's copy]

Published by Ernest Grund, Paris, 1926

306; 62 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green printed wrappers, both in text volume and in Supplement volume; many pages unopened. Text volume wrappers chipped at spine ends and lower edge, creased at lower corner of rear wrapper; Supplement very nice. Several yellow slips laid in with notes and page references in Susan Mary Alsop's handwriting. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). Seller Inventory # 43845

Bibliographic Details

Title: Repertoire General des Ouvrages Modernes ...
Publisher: Ernest Grund, Paris
Publication Date: 1926
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.