373-VIGÉE-LEBRUN (Louise-Elisabeth). Souvenirs. Paris, H. Fournier, 1835, 3 vol. in-8, half tobacco calf, ribbed spine, gilt roulettes on the ribs, cold fleurons in the inner ribs, marbled edges (period binding). Rare first edition, complete with frontispiece portraits. Tulard, 1484. "Russia in the time of Paul I, the advent of Alexander I, England and the émigrés, the Restoration". "A fashionable Court painter who painted a portrait of Marie-Antoinette in 1779, Madame Vigée-Lebrun emigrated at the start of the Revolution. She traveled throughout Italy, living in Naples and Rome, then in Vienna, Prague, Berlin and Saint Petersburg. Above all, she gives descriptions of the countries she visited and the courts she frequented" (Fierro, 1465). A good account of salons at the end of the Ancien Régime and of emigration during the Revolution and Empire. A good copy. Precense bookplate (illegible stamp). Some foxing.