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1662elala1361Cologne: Pierre Van Dyck 1662. 1662. 12mo. pp. 3 p.l. 326. complete with initial & final blank. woodcut sphere device on title. contemporary sprinkled calf extremities worn covers chafed & with a few wormholes. One of several counterfeit editions printed in France the same year as the first edition. La Rochefoucaulds memoirs concerning the civil wars in France during the minority of Louis XIV are regarded as the most important after those of Cardinal de Retz. The author played a prominent though ineffective role in the Fronde as an ally of Condé against Mazarin. He took part in the siege of Paris was severely wounded at the siege of Mardyke and was later shot in the head at the battle of the Faubourg Saint Antoine. La Rochefoucauld was "the greatest maxim writer of France one of her best memoir writers and perhaps the most complete and accomplished representative of her ancient nobility." Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. Barbier III 204. Graesse IV 109. Marchand pp. 34-36. Rahir 3375. Tchemerzine VII 41 2. Willems 1997. cfBerghman 1690. cfBrunet III 818. cfCioranescu 40266-68. cfQuérard IV 567. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Cologne: Pierre Van Dyck, 1662. Hardcover