LA FAYETTE, Madame de - History of Madame Henriette of Engla - Lot 56

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LA FAYETTE, Madame de - History of Madame Henriette of Engla - Lot 56
LA FAYETTE, Madame de - History of Madame Henriette of England, First Wife of Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans. By Dame Marie de La Vergne, Countess of La Fayette. Amsterdam, Michel Charles Le Cene, 1720. Small 8vo, portrait, (4) folios, 223 pp., (25) pp. of index, granulated brown calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, small losses to the cap ends. TCH III, 843. First edition, found with or without the portrait. (See Le Petit, 350). A biography that combines historical interest with the appeal of a novel. Madame de La Fayette had met the Princess, who had taken refuge in France, at the convent of Sainte-Marie de Chaillot, where the abbess was none other than Mademoiselle de La Fayette, her sister-in-law.
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