Book title:

Essai historique sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, reine de France. Seconde Partie

Keywords: Amorous adventures, Biography, Courts & Courtiers, Current Affairs, Erotic works, Fictionalised biography, France, French Revolution, Libertine texts, Lives and letters, Marie-Antoinette, Personal libel, Politics, Pornographic works, Scandal, Vies privees

Parisian category: Histoires particulières des règnes de Louis XV, XVI

Acquired: 133 full copies

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Full title: Essai historique sur la vie privée de Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, reine de France. Seconde Partie
Edition type (by origin): Place of publication unknown

Language(s): French
Publication: n.pl. [?]
Details: 1 volume

Notes: Attribution - edition not identified, several published from 1790. Published and sold later than and separately from the first part of the work. N.B. The standard authorial attribution for this work to Goupil is wrong, as it offers a first person narrative of the Queen's life continued into the revolution. Goupil died in 1778. (See Simon Burrows, 'Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution').