Paris. 1820. History Of Favorite Ministers, Ancient And Modern

A fascinating work, written at the beginning of the Restoration under Louis XVIII, since it was published in Paris in 1820, both for its subject and for its purpose.
It lists, from the most remote antiquity, the ministers favored by sovereigns, but harmful and hated by their contemporaries. He devotes a few well-intentioned pages to each one.
All wounds, the last one kills, in imitation of this ancient adage on the seconds of our lives, the aim of the author, who prudently did not sign his work, is to vilify the last one, Count Élie Decaze, who is the King's favorite.
This book is a veritable manifesto of the Ultra's hostility to this brilliant character, a former collaborator of Fouché, a little too liberal for their taste.
It is therefore a significant testimony to the political turmoil on all sides faced with remarkable phlegm by the new sovereign.
Covered in a very attractive beige morocco binding, which bears a few marks of the time (stains, small accidents) with a spine elegantly stamped with a semis of gilt leaves, which nevertheless remains quite solid, the paper is a little stained.
I venture to guess that this is a rather rare work, which must have been quite confidential.