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PRECIS HISTORIQUE DE LA VIE DE MAD.; LA COMTESSE DU BARRY, avec son portrait.

Paris: 1774. First edn? 8vo, pp. 38, with an engraved portrait, bound in later leather backed boards. A very good copy. Scarce. Not in Barbier; OCLC locates 3 copies. Item #17869

Mari Jeanne Becu De Berry (1743-1793) was an adventuress and mistresss to King Louis XV from 1768 until his death in 1774. She was famous as a patron of the arts and was guillotined in 1793.

Price: $225.00