COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien] - Mémoires de Mr. d'Artagnan, C - Lot 389

COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien] - Mémoires de Mr. d'Artagnan, Capitaine Lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi, contenant quantité de choses particulières et secrètes qui se sont passées sous le règne de Louis le Grand (à la sphère). Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1700. 3 vols. in-12, (3) ff. 440 pp. ; (1) f. 497 pp. ; (1) f. 492 pp. qqqs. russets, brown calf, spine with ornate nerves. SHF n°776. LEVER 266. First edition. The most famous of the historical novels by Courtilz de Sandras, who developed a kind of literary industry under the title of "Mémoires". D'Artagnan's Mémoires are known to be the main source of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers. Nevertheless, since the author claims to have drawn on the papers left by d'Artagnan, they remain a source of information for studying feats of arms from the time of Richelieu to 1673. It also includes information on court intrigues at the start of Louis XIV's personal reign, and on d'Artagnan's arrest of Fouquet.