GARAY de MONGLAVE (F. E.) and PITON (E. C.)] Biographie des - Lot 354

GARAY de MONGLAVE (F. E.) and PITON (E. C.)] Biographie des Dames de la Cour et du Faubourg Saint-Germain, par un valet de chambre congédié. Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1826; in-18°, paperback. 166 pp. Rare little volume. "The destruction of this mordant pamphlet was ordered by order of the Royal Court of Paris, dated Nov. 1, 1826. It was very exactly suppressed, so copies are very rare" Drujon. Ouvrages condamnés p. 53 for the Paris edition, Belin, 1826. "This little volume, full of backbiting and no doubt slander, was seized, condemned and carefully destroyed" Quérard. Supercheries II, 897. In this gallery of ladies, we find Mad. de Barante, with a laudatory note: "She is the granddaughter of the famous Comtesse d'Houdetot, whose praise is found in J. J. Rousseau's strong attachment to her (...) In 1809, Napoleon signed her marriage contract with M. de Barante, then Prefect of the Loire-Inférieure and now one of our most elegant writers and patriotic peers. She's a charming woman, extremely mild-mannered, witty and well-educated, religious without grimaces and philhellenic without ostentation.