The life of Jane de St. Remy de Valois, heretofore Countess de La Motte
containing a circumstantial and exact detail of the many extraordinary events which have attended this unfortunate lady from her birth, and contributed to raise her to the dignity of confidant and favorite of the Queen of France : some farther particulars relative to the mysterious transaction of the diamond necklace : her trial, condemnation, and imprisonment in the Salpetriere, her almost miraculous escape from thence, with many curious and interesting particulars of her journey through serveral provinces of France, under different disguises : also, an address to the National Assembly, supplicating a new trial
by La Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois...
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The original French ed. has also been attributed to Choderlos de Laclose or Charles Théveneau de Morande. Cf. Quérard.
Vol. 1: xv, [1], 451, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates(?); v. 2: [2], 424, 63, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates.
Appendix: v. 2, 63 p. at end.
LC copy imperfect: wanting port.
LC copy bound into 1 v.; with a ms. statement attributed to Thomas Carlyle, in Fraser's magazine, describing the censorship and burning of the 1st French ed. of this work. This incident is also described in Quérard.
Quérard, J.M. Supercheries littéraire (2. éd.), II, columns 648-649
BM, CXXIX, column 495
Thacher, II, p. 55 (French Revolution)
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