Recueil de differentes choses par le Marquis de Lassay

New edition after the original of 1726 published in a very small print run on the château presses in quarto format.
Bound in full glazed marbled blonde calf. Raised band spine decorated. Red morocco title label. Broken and missing corner to the upper board of volume I. Head caps partly worn on volumes I and II. Tail cap worn on volume II.
Armand de Madaillan de Lesparre (28 May 1652 - 21 February 1738) is better known under one of his titles, marquis de Lassay. Aide-de-camp to the great Condé in 1672, man of letters, friend of the libertines of the 17th and 18th centuries, he became acquainted with madame de Maintenon during the salons held by her husband, the poet Scarron. Close to the princes de Condé and Conti, he departed with them to Austria to defend Vienna from the Ottoman Empire's attack, without Louis XIV's authorization. He led a very eventful life: his adventures caused a scandal and earned him the nickname "the Don Juan of the Grand Siècle". He gathered in his Recueil the pieces from his portfolio: his correspondence, anecdotes and maxims. The whole forms a unique and disparate composition, both a history book and a literary work.