Congrès de Vérone. Guerre d'Espagne. Négociations : colonies espagnoles

First edition.

Contemporary Romantic bindings in half green Empire calf, flat spines slightly faded, richly gilt with Romantic decorative motifs, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns; Romantic period bindings.

A few light spots of foxing; a discolouration mark on a blank endpaper of the first volume.

Chateaubriand was one of the plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Verona and was instrumental in securing the decision to invade revolutionary Spain, despite British opposition.

The Congress of Verona (1822) was an international conference held as part of the Holy Alliance’s “Congress System”, aimed at maintaining anti-liberal order in Europe after the Congress of Vienna. It notably led to the French intervention against Spanish liberals. The volume also includes celebrated passages on Waterloo, portraits of Louis XVIII and Tsar Alexander, and Chateaubriand’s final visit to Charles X. These pages appear detached from the Mémoires, of which they form a little-known chapter. Father Bertier de Sauvigny noted that the Congrès de Vérone was never again published separately and is often omitted from collected editions.