225-LEVAVASSEUR (Octave). Military memoirs of Octave Levavasseur, artillery officer, aide-de-camp to Marshal Ney (1802-1815). Published by Major Beslay, his great-grandson. Paris, Plon, 1914, in-12, IV-337 pp, fold-out facsimile, index, midnight blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (Huser). First edition. Tulard, 902: "Souvenirs written after 1832, from notes taken during campaigns: the Metz artillery school, the Boulogne camp, Austerlitz, Jena, Eylau, Friedland, Spain, Russia, France, Waterloo. These memories end with the trial of Marshal Ney, to which Levavasseur pays tribute." A good copy.