BERRY, WendellABAA
Anniversaire
1816Best.-Nr. 832071816. First Edition. DE BERRY Duchesse DE RANC M. and THAULON Marie. LÕAnniversaire ou une journe de Philippe-Auguste. Paris: Cussac 1816. Slim octavo contemporary full straight-grain red morocco gilt gilt armorial coat of arms of La Duchesse du Berry on both boards elaborately gilt-decorated spine silk endpapers all edges gilt. $5500.First edition of the popular French play LÕAnniversaire from the library of La Duchesse de Berry with her gilt armorial coat of arms on both boards.This first edition of the French dramatic comedy LÕAnniversaire is from the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile La Duchesse de Berry daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and it contains her gilt coat of arms on both boards Olivier 2554. La Duchesse de Berry is well remembered for staging a brief rebellion against ÒKing Louis-Philippe in a vain attempt to gain the crown for her son Henri Dieudonn comte de Chambord. Her husband the Duc de Berry a son of Charles X of France had been assassinated in 1820. When Charles was overthrown in 1830 she tried to secure the succession for her son but was forced into exile. In 1832 disguised as a peasant she crossed the French border from Italy and made her way to the Vende where she succeeded in instigating a brief but abortive insurrection June 1832. She was arrested in NantesÉ but was freed in July 1833 with the discovery of her recent marriage to an obscure Italian nobleman Count Ettore Lucchesi-Palli an act that exempted her from the French throne. She lived in Austria and Italy until her deathÓ Encyclopaedia Britannica. This one-act play in verse by dramatists de Ranc and Thaulon premiered at Thtre-FranÂais on November 16 1816. Text in French. Qurard 450. With gilt morocco bookplate of bibliophile Pierre Guerquin a director of Muses Nationaux de France. Bookplate of collector N.A.C. Embiricos. Tiny bit of marginalia to blank verso of front free endpaper.A fine copy with an impressive provenance. hardcover books
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