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Royal memoirs on the French Revolution : 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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Title: Royal memoirs on the French Revolution : 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

Other titles: Royal memoirs of the French Revolution; Royal memoirs of the French Revolution

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Classmark: Pencheon Collection ROY

Additional creator(s): Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte duchesse d' (1778-1851) (Other); Louis King of France (1755-1824) (Other); Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857) (Translator); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (Other); John Murray (Firm) (Publisher)

Publisher: John Murray

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1823

Language: English

Size and medium: 302 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/794237

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021357381805181

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Halkett & Laing attribute the translation and editing to John Wilson Croker.

Of the three articles, no. I "was... incorporated into ... Weber's Memoirs;" no. II appeared 1823, under title, "Relation d'un voyage a ́Bruxelles et a ́Coblentz, 1791;" no. III appeared 1817, under title, "Memoirs particuliers [etc.].

(from title page) 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.

Halkett & Laing attribute the translation and editing to John Wilson Croker.

Indexed in: Halkett & Laing,

Indexed in: Thacher,

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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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