Memoirs of Louis-Philippe

These memoirs of Louis-Philippe, comte de Segur, a French courtier and diplomat, cover the last decades of the old regime and the shock of revolution. He recalls Versailles under Louis XVI, service with the French expedition in the American war, and his years as ambassador at the court of Catherine the Great, with its ceremonies, favourites, and negotiations. Returning to France, he watches the collapse of royal authority, imprisonment, and the rearrangement of careers under later governments. Anecdotes of soldiers, empresses, and salon politicians fill the pages. The book is a first-person gallery of courts and campaigns, not a biography of King Louis-Philippe.

Bound in red buckram with a blocked gilt design on cover and spine. Green slipcase.