Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de la Rochejaquelein /
La Rochejaquelein, Marie-Louise-Victoire,marquise de,1772-1857.
LouisXVIII,King of France,1755-1824,former owner.StEdNL
NapoleonI,Emperor of the French,1769-1821,former owner.NLS
Brownlow, Emma Sophia Edgcumbe Cust,Countess of,1791-1872 ,former owner.StEdNL
Barante, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière,baron de,1782-1866.
A Bordeaux : Chez Racle ...,
1814.
Pencil inscription on front endpapers by Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe (later Countess Brownlow) records that the book was originally a presentation copy from the author to King Louis XVIII of France. It was taken from Napoleon's carriage after the battle of Waterloo by the Prussian army and presented by Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher to Sir Henry Hardinge, who was then acting as British liaison officer with the Prussian allies. Hardinge later sent it to Lady  Edgcumbe, who bequeathed it to the family of her cousin, the 7th Marquess of Lothian. Lady Edgcumbe's ownership inscription on the title page to vol. 1 has been crossed out. Included with the volume is a letter, dated February 4 1872 from Lady Cecil, Marchioness of Lothian (1808-1877), widow of the 7th marquess of Lothian, to her son Schomberg Kerr, 9th marquess of Lothian, explaining the history of the volume and also giving an (inaccurate) transcription of Lady Edgcumbe's inscription.
Bound in contemporary embossed red leather with gilt decoration, including the arms of King Louis VIII of France, and light blue silk covering of the pastedowns and endpapers. The book has been placed in a 19th-century custom-made box, covered in dark-blue leather and lined with blue silk, made by the firm of Leuchars & Son of London.
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Vendean War, 1793-1800.