Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour

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Author

Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764, author.

Uniform Title

Mémoires de Madame la marquise de Pompadour. English.

Title

Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour / written by herself. Wherein are displayed the motives of the wars, treaties of peace, embassies, and negotiations; in the several courts of Europe: ... and, in general, the most remarkable occurrences at the court of France, during the last twenty years of the reign of Lewis XV. Translated from the French. In two volumes.

Publication

London : Printed for P. Vaillant, in the Strand; and W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street, MDCCLXVI [1766]

Physical Description

2 volumes ; 18 cm

Notes

Not in fact by Madame de Pompadour.

Sometimes attributed to Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon and to Marianne Agnès Pillement, Dame de Fauques.

A translation, sometimes attributed to Samuel Johnson, of 'Mémoires de Madame la marquise de Pompadour'.

"The editor's preface" is unsigned.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Edward Buckley of Buckley, Lancashire.

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