Author: GAY,MADAME SOPHIE
Title: LA COMTESSE D'EGMONT tome premiet and second
Description: Paris 1836, 396/384 pp., not ill., stamp on title-pages, exlibris, Novel concentrated on the conflict between forced marriage and romantic love, based on the life story of Septimanie d’Egmont. Daughter of the 3rd Duke of Richelieu, the “champion adulterer” of ancien régime France, aunt of the 5th Duke of Richelieu, the builder of Odessa, Ukraine, afterwards France’s Restauration political leader, and absolutely irreproachable. In her salon Rousseau read to an audience the first draft of his Confessions. Also she convinced French diplomat Rulhière to write down the history how Catherine II of Russia grabbed power from her husband in 1762, a report that immediately elicited insistent protests from Saint-Petersburg. Her acquaintance and correspondance with the Swedish King Gustav III, which influenced his thinking and politics, gave her a firm place in Swedish history. (code N-37)

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