LES ÉTOURDIS

by Marie-Caroline Berry, Duchess of, François-Guillaume Jean Stanislaus Andrieux

$7,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Paris: Vente, 1816. Royal wedding edition of this popular pre-Revolution comedy, issued on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie-Caroline and the Duc de Berry — and from the library of the Duchess herself, who famously sold her books after her failed coup in 1832. Fine. Item #55305 The Duchess's wedding occurred only a year after the restoration of the royal House of Bourbon in 1815, following Napoleon's

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