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The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d'Epinay in Three Volumes
18992289600H.S. Nichols Ltd 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii 337 3; vii 1 348; viii 356 pp. 8vo. Translated with an introduction and notes by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay Jean Jacques Rousseau and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay "was a French writer a saloniste and woman of fashion known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot Jean le Rond d'Alembert Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century." - Wikipedia H.S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
