Not in Brunet.<\/i><\/p>\n
First complete edition (after the incomplete edition of 1734 published in The Hague).<\/p>\n
Charles-Alexandre de Montgon (1690-1770), a religious, entered the service of Philip V, King of Spain, in 1724. In 1726, he was commissioned by his sovereign to travel to France with the secret mission of intriguing to ensure his succession to the crown in the event of Louis XV dying childless. After unmasking himself through carelessness to the Cardinal de Fleury, the Prime Minister, Montgon had to go into exile in Douai. His Memoirs were composed during his exile.<\/p>\n
The first five volumes were published without a publisher’s name or place; it is only from volume VI onwards that the name of the Lausanne printer, Marc-Michel Bousquet, appears.<\/p>\n
In this copy, the Pi\u00e8ces justificatives <\/i>of volumes I to V are bound in a single volume, with a title page that reads “Tome Sixi\u00e8me” (thus there are two volumes with the heading ‘VI’, one for the Memoirs and one for the Pi\u00e8ces justificatives).<\/p>\n
The Pi\u00e8ces justificatives<\/i> of volumes VI (CXXVII pp.) and VII (CLXXXVIII pp.) are missing.<\/p>\n
Traces of use on the bindings, spines slightly faded.<\/p>\n
Provenance: Rohan-Chabot family collection (armorial binding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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