“
sentiment, Sans etre belle ni neuve, En France on peut avoir le premier amant: Pompadour en est l’epreuve”.”
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour [Madame Le Normant d’Étioles], 1721-1764. These
Mémoires, originally published in 1766, are now ascribed to Crébillon fils, though at one time were considered authentic. According
to Theux they were printed abroad.
Claude Prosper Jolyot Crébillon, 1707-1777, French novelist, was appointed to the office of censor in 1759 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour.
[208]
J.76
Memoires de la Comtesse du Barri.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 12. no. 36, as above.
[MAIROBERT,
Mathieu François Pidanzet de.]
Anecdotes sur M. la Comtesse Du Barri . . . A
Londres: [i. e.
Paris]
1775.
DC135 .D8M2
First Edition. 12mo. 176 leaves; in this copy the last sheet has been inserted from another copy, with lower edges uncut, and is
printed on differently water marked paper with the wire-lines vertical. This edition is complete without the portrait mentioned
in some bibliographies, and which first appeared in the edition of John Adams, 1776.
Barbier I, 59.
Tourneux 22512.
This edition not in Quérard.
Rebound in red buckram by the Library of Congress in 1921. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. On the title is written in ink
par Mathieu Franc. Pedanzet de Mairobert.
Listed on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
6.0 (livres).
Marie Jean Bécu, comtesse du Barri, 1746-1793, mistress of Louis XV, was guillotined on December 7, 1793.
Mathieu François Pidanzet de Mairobert, 1727-1799, French writer, and reputed author of this work, committed suicide in 1799. The preface states that
quoique cet Ouvrage soit une vie très complette de Madame la Comtesse Dubarri, l’Auteur, pour lui ôter tour air de prétention,
a préféré le titre modeste d’Anecdotes
.
[209]
77
Histoire de la guerre des Alpes de 1744. par le M. de S
t. Simon.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 11. no. 147, as above.
SAINT-SIMON,
Maximilien Henri, marquis de.
Histoire de la guerre des Alpes, ou Campagne de 1744, par les armées combinées d’Espagne et de France, commandées par l’Infant
don Philippe et le prince de Conti . . .
Amsterdam,
1770.
4to. No copy of this edition was located for collation. The first edition was published in the previous year, 1769, and to
this
second edition had been added
l’Histoire de Coni,
[
sic
]
depuis sa fondation en 1200 jusques en 1744
.
Listed without price on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue.
Maximilien Henri, Marquis de Saint-Simon, 1720-1799, was at one time aide-de-camp to the Prince of Conti.
[210]
78
Vie de Voltaire.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 15. no. 100, as above.
[DU VERNET,
Théophile Imarigeon.]
La Vie de Voltaire, par M * * *. A
Geneve,
1786.
YA 3472
