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[LANGLADE (Jacques de)]. Mémoires de la vie de Frédéric Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon. Paris, Pierre Trabouillet, 1692. In-12 of [4] ff. 263 pp. [1] f., glazed fawn calf, ribbed spine decorated with boxes bearing the numeral "BB", triple gilded fillet framing and gilded fleurons in the center of the boards, freckled edges (period binding). First edition of the Duc de Bouillon's memoirs, written by his former secretary Jacques de Langlade, baron de Saumières. Raised as a Calvinist, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (1605-1652), Duc de Bouillon, took part in the civil wars in Flanders and was involved in the Cinq-Mars conspiracy. Arrested in Lyon, he was forced to surrender his principalities of Sedan and Raucourt to Louis XIII, and retired to Pontoise. This account is followed by interesting biographical information on his brother, the famous Marshal de Turenne. A very fine copy from the library of Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), member of the Académie française and royal librarian, with gilt supralibris on the boards and gilt "BB" repeated on the spine.

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[LANGLADE (Jacques de)]. Mémoires de la vie de Frédéric Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon. Paris, Pierre Trabouillet, 1692. In-12 of [4] ff. 263 pp. [1] f., glazed fawn calf, ribbed spine decorated with boxes bearing the numeral "BB", triple gilded fillet framing and gilded fleurons in the center of the boards, freckled edges (period binding). First edition of the Duc de Bouillon's memoirs, written by his former secretary Jacques de Langlade, baron de Saumières. Raised as a Calvinist, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (1605-1652), Duc de Bouillon, took part in the civil wars in Flanders and was involved in the Cinq-Mars conspiracy. Arrested in Lyon, he was forced to surrender his principalities of Sedan and Raucourt to Louis XIII, and retired to Pontoise. This account is followed by interesting biographical information on his brother, the famous Marshal de Turenne. A very fine copy from the library of Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), member of the Académie française and royal librarian, with gilt supralibris on the boards and gilt "BB" repeated on the spine.

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