[louis XIV Versailles] Memoirs + Letters Madame De Maintenon. 16/16.

La BEAUMELLE (Laurent ANGLIVIEL de) - [MAINTENON (Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de) - Le VALOIS de VILETTE de MURSAY (Marthe-Marguerite, Marquise de CAYLUS)] - VOLTAIRE (François-Marie AROUET, dit, notes de). Memories to serve the history of Madame de Maintenon and that of the past century [next:] Letters from Madame de Maintenon [next:] Souvenirs de Madame de Caylus to serve as a Supplement to the Memoirs and Letters of Madame de Maintenon [following:] Defense of Louis XIV. In Maestricht, at Jean-Edme Dufour & Phil Roux, 1778. ------------------------------------ -------- 16 vol. in the format in-12 (172 x 108 mm) of 1 f. bl., vii, xxiv - 298 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 338 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 354 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iii - 271 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., iv - 306 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 327 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 294 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 300 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 384 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vi - 283 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., vii - 308 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., x - 345 pp. and 2 ff. bl. ; 1 f. bl., xii - 372 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., viii - 339 pp. and 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl., 2 ff. n.fol., 201 pp. and 2 ff. bl. Uniform bindings of the time of full glossy and brown marbled sheepskin, cold thread framing the covers, smooth spine adorned with a double gold framing thread, double gold threads, golden florets, seedlings of small golden florets, title pieces of turquoise morocco, pieces of volume number of emerald morocco, golden title, golden volume number, golden palette on the head and tail, golden thread on the cuts, red edges, guards decorated with painted decoration patterns. Together - in decorative bindings of the time - complete of the 16 constituting volumes. The publication of La Beaumelle's Notes on Le Siècle de Louis XIV earned him a six-month detention in the Bastille; the publication of the Memoirs of Madame de Maintenon provided the reason for a new detention of La Beaumelle in this royal prison ''. (in Quérard). Governess of the natural children of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon secretly became his wife after the death of the queen in 1683, attracting to her as much sycophancy as hatred of the court and the royal family. At the end of Louis XIV's reign, she caused an era of devotion and austerity to hover over the court. We attribute to him a great influence on the king and on the Court, in particular concerning the decision which led to the revocation, in 1685, of the Edict of Nantes, which caused the exodus of a large part of the Protestants, or the incitement to the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701. At the end of 1680, Madame de Maintenon had her niece, the future Madame de Caylus, removed from the Huguenots. The kidnapping moved no one except the father. And the little girl, after having cried a little, converted the day after her arrival at court, because she had found the King's Mass very beautiful and had been promised that she would see it every day. . Madame de Caylus narrates this in her Souvenirs. The court of Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Racine who wanted to see her in Esther, Saint-Simon who appreciated her finesse: all these great characters and many others bring back to life here the very spirit of Versailles in the time of the Sun King . '' Graesse IV, Treasure of rare and precious books, p. 345 - Brunet III, Manual of the bookseller and the book lover, 1321 (for the original of 1755/1756) - Quérard IB, La France littéraire, p. 330. Worn angles. Some rugged headdresses. Frictions affecting the title and volume number parts. Small scattered superficial changes that can affect the dishes. Small angular lack affecting a leaf. Slight worm work on a few pages (with at most and very rarely the loss of a letter). Besides, good condition.