Lettres portugaises ...
Contributors: Mercier de Saint-Léger, 1734-1799.; Dorat, Claude Joseph, 1734-1780.; Alcoforado, Mariana, 1640-1723.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: L'impr. de Delance
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Alcoforado, Mariana, 1640-1723 -- Fiction.
Other titles: Lettres portugaises. Seconde partie.
Notes: "250 exemplaires ... tous sur papier vélin."
The first volume contains the seven letters written in imitation of those formerly attributed to Marianna Alcoforado by "une femme du monde" (first issued with title: Lettres portugaise. Seconde partie) followed by Dorat's imitations in verse and preceded by a "Notice historique et bibliographique" by the Abbé Mercier de St.-Léger and "Réflexions préliminaires extraites de Dorat".
Volume 2 contains the five letters here attributed to M. Alcoforado, followed by Dorat's imitations.
The letters attributed to M. Alcoforado are supposed to have been addressed to Noël Bouton, marquis de Chamilly.