Journal historique, ou Fastes du regne de Louis XV, surnommé le bien aimé
Contributors: Salvandy, N.-A. de (Narcisse-Achille), 1795-1856
Edition: Second edition, enlarged
Publisher: Chez Prault, Quai de Gêvres; [Chez] Saillant, rue S. Jean de Beauvais
Published: 1766
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: History; Court and courtiers
Other titles: Journal historique.; Fastes du regne de Louis XV.; Journal historique du regne de Louis XV.
Notes: This enlarged second edition attributed to Jean Baptiste Michel de Levy by Barbier and Querard.

First edition published Paris, 1757; this expanded edition covers the years 1715-1764.

Includes many references (beginning in the year 1754, pt. 2) to the military role of the young Major George Washington, the French occupation of the Ohio Valley, Washington's involvement in the expedition against Fort Duquesne, and his building of Fort Necessity; also includes numerous references to other French holdings in Mississippi, New Orleans, New France, Canada, Cuba and the West Indies.

Pagination: pt. 1: viii, 208 p., [1] leaf of plates; pt. 2: 253, [3] p.

Signatures: pt. 1: a⁴ A-N⁸; pt. 2: A-N⁸ O-T⁴

Error in pagination: pt. 2: p. 207 numbered 209.

Includes index.

Engraved vignette on title page; headpieces.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Louis XV.

Cf. Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 40244 (first edition, 1757)

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes 9067.

Querard 5:284.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: M. de Salvandy: engraved bookplate on verso of front flyleaf, with his shelfmark.