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[CHARRIERE (Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van Zuylen, Madame de). Letters written from Lausanne. First part. - Callist or Continuation of the Letters written from Lausanne. Second part. Geneva-Paris, Prault, 1788. 2 parts in one vol. in-8, midnight blue half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (20th century binding). A good copy. Very rare edition which follows the separate and successive publication of the two parts: the first was published in 1785 at the false address of Toulouse (in fact Geneva), then reprinted in 1786; the second in 1787 by the same Prault. The literary importance of Belle Van Zuylen (1740-1805), who married Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière de Penthaz, has not ceased to grow since the nineteenth century, when she was relatively unknown. In correspondence with all the beautiful or great minds of the century, she left a work with a luminous and pure style, which, for the later periods, can best give the impression of what was this period of the "douceur de vivre". (Cioranescu, XVIII, 16920 and 16922 (for the originals of each part).
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[CHARRIERE (Isabelle-Agnès-Elisabeth van Zuylen, Madame de). Letters written from Lausanne. First part. - Callist or Continuation of the Letters written from Lausanne. Second part. Geneva-Paris, Prault, 1788. 2 parts in one vol. in-8, midnight blue half-chagrin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (20th century binding). A good copy. Very rare edition which follows the separate and successive publication of the two parts: the first was published in 1785 at the false address of Toulouse (in fact Geneva), then reprinted in 1786; the second in 1787 by the same Prault. The literary importance of Belle Van Zuylen (1740-1805), who married Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière de Penthaz, has not ceased to grow since the nineteenth century, when she was relatively unknown. In correspondence with all the beautiful or great minds of the century, she left a work with a luminous and pure style, which, for the later periods, can best give the impression of what was this period of the "douceur de vivre". (Cioranescu, XVIII, 16920 and 16922 (for the originals of each part).
