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[VIEILLEVILLE (Maréchal de)] CARLOIX (Vincent): Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, sire de Vieilleville et comte de Duretal, maréchal de France ; contenants plusieurs anecdotes des règnes de François Ier, Henri II, François II et Charles IX. Paris, H.-L. Guérin & L.-F. Delatour, 1757. 5 volumes. 9.5 by 16.5 cm. Engraved portrait-XXXII-446; (4)-VIII-461; (4)-VIII-440; (4)-VIII-411; (4)-VIII-468 pages. Full contemporary calf, spine with 5 ornate bands, red title-pieces, roulette on the edges. Two small bumps on the boards, one very small crack on a spine, otherwise a very fine copy. Very good condition inside. First edition. An engraved portrait by P. E. Moitte adorns the frontispiece. "The manuscript of the memoirs of Marshal de Vielleville (1509-1571) was discovered by the Jesuit Henri Griffet in the archives of the Château de Durtal and published under the name of Vincent Carloix, the Marshal's secretary. However, the true author of these memoirs is an anonymous and well-informed 18th-century compiler."

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[VIEILLEVILLE (Maréchal de)] CARLOIX (Vincent): Mémoires de la vie de François de Scepeaux, sire de Vieilleville et comte de Duretal, maréchal de France ; contenants plusieurs anecdotes des règnes de François Ier, Henri II, François II et Charles IX. Paris, H.-L. Guérin & L.-F. Delatour, 1757. 5 volumes. 9.5 by 16.5 cm. Engraved portrait-XXXII-446; (4)-VIII-461; (4)-VIII-440; (4)-VIII-411; (4)-VIII-468 pages. Full contemporary calf, spine with 5 ornate bands, red title-pieces, roulette on the edges. Two small bumps on the boards, one very small crack on a spine, otherwise a very fine copy. Very good condition inside. First edition. An engraved portrait by P. E. Moitte adorns the frontispiece. "The manuscript of the memoirs of Marshal de Vielleville (1509-1571) was discovered by the Jesuit Henri Griffet in the archives of the Château de Durtal and published under the name of Vincent Carloix, the Marshal's secretary. However, the true author of these memoirs is an anonymous and well-informed 18th-century compiler."

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