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Royal memoirs on the French Revolution... . With historical and biographical illustrations by the translator

Archive Print Item: Modern History D-8.5 MAR

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Type of record: Book

Title: Royal memoirs on the French Revolution... . With historical and biographical illustrations by the translator

Level: Item

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.

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Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection ROY: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).

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