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[LA ROCHE-GUILHEM (Anne de)]. Almanzaïde, short story. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1674. In-12 of [1]f., 226 pp. Brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title page, gilt arms and gilt superlibris ("Meudon") on boards (slightly post.) (period binding). First edition of this short story by Mlle de La Roche-Guilhem (Rouen 1644 - England 1707 or 1710), great-niece of the poet Saint-Amant. A Protestant living in Paris, she emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), perhaps via Holland. Her father having died without a fortune, and she herself having never recanted, she sought in vain for protectors, dedicating some of her works to princesses, or to Charles II. She also translated Spanish works. Finally settled in London, she died surrounded by Huguenot friends. The circulation of her works, written in England, printed in Holland and smuggled into France, shows how Protestant networks functioned in those troubled times. (source Wikipedia.) Rare and interesting provenance of Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynès (1670-1736), COMTESSE de VERRUE by marriage, then mistress of the Duke of Savoy Victor-Amédée II. She was one of the greatest bibliophiles of her time, owning some 18,000 volumes. Her coat of arms is surmounted by the inscription "Meudon", where she owned a country house. (O.H.R. 799.) Ex-dono from Count Costa de Beauregard, July 1708. (Barbier I, 115.)

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[LA ROCHE-GUILHEM (Anne de)]. Almanzaïde, short story. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1674. In-12 of [1]f., 226 pp. Brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title page, gilt arms and gilt superlibris ("Meudon") on boards (slightly post.) (period binding). First edition of this short story by Mlle de La Roche-Guilhem (Rouen 1644 - England 1707 or 1710), great-niece of the poet Saint-Amant. A Protestant living in Paris, she emigrated to England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), perhaps via Holland. Her father having died without a fortune, and she herself having never recanted, she sought in vain for protectors, dedicating some of her works to princesses, or to Charles II. She also translated Spanish works. Finally settled in London, she died surrounded by Huguenot friends. The circulation of her works, written in England, printed in Holland and smuggled into France, shows how Protestant networks functioned in those troubled times. (source Wikipedia.) Rare and interesting provenance of Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynès (1670-1736), COMTESSE de VERRUE by marriage, then mistress of the Duke of Savoy Victor-Amédée II. She was one of the greatest bibliophiles of her time, owning some 18,000 volumes. Her coat of arms is surmounted by the inscription "Meudon", where she owned a country house. (O.H.R. 799.) Ex-dono from Count Costa de Beauregard, July 1708. (Barbier I, 115.)

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