BUSSY RABUTIN (Roger de). - Lot 84

BUSSY RABUTIN (Roger de). Memoirs. Nouvelle édition revue sur un manuscrit de famille augmentée de fragments inédits suivies de l'histoire amoureuse des Gaules avec une préface, des notes et des tables par Ludovic Lalanne, published in Paris by Charpentier in 1857. Two in-8 volumes in half-brown basane, smooth spine, I: XXXVI, 468 pages and II: 483 pages. Roger de Rabutin (1618-1693), comte de Bussy, was lieutenant-general in the armies of Louis XIV, and took part in most of the campaigns of the Thirty Years' War. A renowned libertine, his famous satirical tale "L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules" recounts the antics of members of the French court and high nobility. His memoirs, published after his death and written while he was away from the court and back in his native land, are appreciated for their historical grounding and have all the qualities of great adventure stories. Mottling.