Royal memoirs on the French Revolution... . With historical and biographical illustrations by the translator
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Type of record: Book
Title: Royal memoirs on the French Revolution... . With historical and biographical illustrations by the translator
Classmark: Modern History D-8.5 MAR
Additional creator(s): Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte duchesse d' (1778-1851) (Other); Louis king of France (1755-1830) (Other); Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857) (Other); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Publisher: John Murray, Albemarle Street; Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1823
Language: English
Size and medium: 302 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/205886
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010399619705181
Description
Of the three articles, no. I "was... incorporated into ... Weber's Memoirs;" no. II appeared 1823, under title, "Relation d'un voyage á Bruxelles et á Coblentz, 1791;" no. III appeared 1817, under title, "Memoirs particuliers [etc.]".
Halkett & Laing attribute the translation and editing to John Wilson Croker.
Title page continues: Containing, I. A narrative of the journey of Louis XVI. and his family to Varennes, by Madame Royale, duchess of Angoulême; II. A narrative of a journey to Bruxelles and Coblentz in 1791, by Monsieur, now Louis XVIII; III. Private memoirs of what passed in the Temple, from the imprisonment of the royal family to the death of the Dauphin, by Madame Royale, duchess of Angoulême.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection ROY: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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