ALLONVILLE (Alexandre Louis, Comte d').Livre Rare Book
Mémoires tirés des papiers d'un homme d'Etat sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets dans les guerres de la Révolution
183167565Paris: L.-G. Michaud 1831. Fine. L.-G. Michaud Paris 1831 - 1838 12.80 x 21 cm 13 volumes reliés First edition with 2 maps one in color the second plain at the end of volume I both showing the position of the coalition armies. Contemporary full wine-colored sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools. Gilt titles and volume labels. Boards stamped in blind with central medallion in a lozenge with Restoration ornaments. Spines now uniformly faded to blond the gilding on volumes more or less worn. Some corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing. Cuts on some head caps. Despite flaws handsome set in full contemporary binding. 19th-century armorial bookplate Count Bernard d'Imécourt. Second bookplate: L. Dussieux. Political history of Europe from 1786 to 1815. The author studies the politics of the cabinets of all the great powers in their conduct of war against the French Revolution. The author shows how the Revolution in France overturned the old political and moral world of Europe. The second part of the work which we owe to d'Allonville deals in turn with Europe during the First Empire and the change that took place in European politics. Both authors seek to capture the secrets of history's march meticulously retracing how the upheavals of the Revolution and Empire came about. An officer since 1778 in an infantry regiment of the king's army François-Armand d'Allonville exercised military functions as far as Russia during the Empire; it was when he returned to France in 1828 that he assisted Alphonse de Beauchamp in various historical works. L.-G. Michaud hardcover
