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Mémoires authentiques de Mme la comtesse du Barry, by Nogaret, François-Félix

Keywords:  Amorous adventures, Biography, Courts & Courtiers, Current Affairs, du Barry, Jeanne, Erotic works, Fictionalised biography, France, Libertine texts, Literature, Lives and letters, Louis XV, Maupeouana, Personal libel, Political Fiction, Politics, Prose Fiction, Royal Mistresses, Scandal

Parisian category: Romans

Acquired:  113 full copies

Sold and Given:  150 full copies

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Full title: Mémoires authentiques de Mme la comtesse du Barry
Edition type (by origin): Other Swiss editions
Author(s): Nogaret, François-Félix
Original title: The Authentic Memoirs of the Countess de Barre, The French King's Mistress
Original language: English
Language(s): French
Publication: London [Geneva?], 1775 [1775]
Details: 2 volumes, in-in-12°
STN Livres philosophiques 1775
Notes: Attribution - sourced from 1775, transactions data suggests Geneva probable real place of publication. No two volume edition of this work has been traced. The only extant 1775 edition claims to be published in 'Londres: aux dépens des éditeurs' is only 188 pages long. The only previous editions are from 1772. The title-page of the work proclaims that it was 'par le chevalier Fr. N.', who is usually assumed to be Nogaret, and 'Traduit de l'anglois'. As an English 'second edition' dated 1771 survives, this improbable sounding claim appears to be correct. Except for the final pages, telling of Du Barry's relations with Louis XV, this work is essentially a piece of creative erotic fiction.
Full title: Memoires authentiques de la comtesse de Barré, maitresse de Louis XV, roi de France: extraits d'un manuscrit que possede Madame la duchesse de Villeroy
Edition type (by origin): British editions
Author(s): Nogaret, François-Félix
Original title: The Authentic Memoirs of the Countess de Barre, The French King's Mistress
Original language: English
Language(s): French
Publication: London, 1772
Details: 1 volume, in-8°, pages: 136
Notes: Attribution - although probably the 1772 edition (Londres: Imprimé aux dépens des Editeurs, & se vendent chez J. Roson & G. Reily), could be the 1775 London [Geneva ?] edition, as sometimes works published late in one year appeared with the date of the following year.