Pensées et maximes de Talleyrand, précédées de ses premiers amours, et suivies de l'opinion de Napoléon sur ce grand diplomate. - La Pensée, almanach des gens indépendans, pour l'année 1838

Second edition of this apocryphal work by the scandal-minded journalist and literary mystifier Henri de Latouche (1785–1851), first issued under the title Album perdu.

Contemporary half fawn sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, garlands and fleurons, some rubbing to spine and joints, minor losses at head and foot of the split joints, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

Some foxing.

A collection of anecdotes and bons mots assembled here on the principle that “to those who have, more shall be given”: they circulated in the society of the July Monarchy and have since been endlessly repeated in monographs devoted to Talleyrand, though their origin and authenticity can never be verified.

The subject of these inventions was in any case so far above such attributions and gossip that he never deigned to confirm or deny any of them.

Bound with: "La Pensée, almanach des gens indépendans, pour l'année 1838", published in Paris by A. Philippe, n.d. [1838], (2 ff. n.ch., pp. 5–91, 1 f. n.ch.).

CCFr records copies at the BnF only.

Published only from 1838 to 1841. Notably, it was in this year that the prince of diplomats passed away.