294-PERSAT (Maurice). Memoirs, 1806 to 1844. Published with introduction and notes by G. Schlumberger. Paris, Plon, 1910, in-8, XXX-i-367 pp. half red morocco, ornate ribbed spine, marbled head (Stroobants). Tulard, 1140: "A single chapter, the first, consists of a summary of Persat's services under the Empire (Spain, Russia, Germany). After the fall of the Empire, he left for the United States." A good memoir of an officer who spent most of his military career outside France: fought alongside Bolivar in Colombia (1819), left for Naples and then England; in Greece in 1821-1822, in 1828 and in 1837, in Spain in 1822-1824, in the West Indies, in America from 1824 to 1827, left for the Morée after the Revolution of 1830. Bertier, 803. A fine copy. Some foxing.