65-CHASTENAY (Louise-Marie-Victoire, dite Victorine de). Memoirs, 1771-1815. Paris, Plon, 1896, 2 vol. in-8, VIII-488 pp. and 598 pp, portr.-front, index, green half-maroquin, smooth spine decorated, monogram at foot, gilt head (period binding). Excellent memoirs of the salons at the end of the Ancien Régime, the Terror in Rouen and various episodes of the Revolution. (Fierro, 307) But above all, "these memoirs are first-rate for the internal history of the Consulate: the salons, the life of the assemblies, the plots on which the author is well informed thanks to his links with Réal, one of the chiefs of police. Portraits of Fouché, Chateaubriand, Talleyrand, Rovigo and Maret in Volume II. Anecdotes on the scientific movement and Parisian life". (Tulard, 310) Also available for the Restoration (Bertier, 237). A fine copy. Ex-libris Edm Fries, with his monogram on the spine (?).