84-COULMANN (Jean-Jacques). Réminiscences. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1862-1869, 3 volumes in 1 vol. in-8, 368 pp, 300 pp and 420 pp, green half-maroquin à la Bradel, cover of volume 3 preserved (period binding). First and only edition of these rare memoirs. Tulard, 363: "L'Alsace au début de l'Empire, le collège Sainte-Barbe, l'entrée des alliés à Paris et l'occupation de l'hôtel du général Walther, beau-père de Coulmann, l'invasion de 1815". A little-known memoir, particularly important for the end of the Empire and for the history of political and literary ideas under the Restoration. A close friend of Benjamin Constant, he wrote many anecdotes about him, including his unpublished memoirs on the Thermidorian reaction (vol. 3, chap. VIII). Bertier, 279. Ex-libris Bibliothèque du Franc-Port. A good copy.