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(Doppet,F.A.).

Memoires de Madame de Warens et de Claude Anet, pour servir de suite aux Confessions de J.J. Rousseau. Edition originale. Chambery, et se trouve a Paris chez Leroy 1786. with eng. Front. (Portrait of Louise de Warens). 2 pp., XVI, 327 pp. Cioranescu I, 25064. Very rare first edition of the fictional memoirs of Rousseau's mistress, published anonymously. - Francois Amedee Doppet (1753-1799) joined the army as a young man in 1771, where he remained for three years. He later studied medicine in Turin. He returned to his home town of Chambery and tried unsuccessfully to gain a foothold at the court of Savoy. He then traveled to Switzerland and Paris. His poems, novels and medical writings written during this time were not very successful. He later took an active part in the French Revolution, taking part in the storming of the Tuileries and eventually becoming a general in the revolutionary army. - His 1786 published. His memoirs of 'Madame de Warens' (1699-1762) and her chamberlain Claude Anet, published in 1786, are intended as a tribute to Rousseau's patroness and lover and appeared four years after the latter had described his views in detail and bitterly in the 'Confessions' (1782). - Dedication and pasted-in newspaper article on the flyleaf, somewhat more heavily browned and foxed in places, the last quire with losses in the lower white margin (no loss of text).

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