1895 The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St Cloud in a Series of Letters

Description

Early Edition, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition thus, limited edition, 'strictly limited to 500 copies'.

Sixth in the 'Collection of Court Memoirs'. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece to both volumes, one of which depicts Napoleon Bonaparte.

'The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud' is a series of letters from a noble gentleman in Paris, related to another nobleman in London. These letters were written during the months of August to October 1805, and are attributed to a man named Stewarton who was said to be a friend to the Empress Josephine. 

Contents of these letters includes accounts of the lives of nearly all of Napoleon's ministers and generals, with insights about other interesting characters within Napoleon's Court, as well as the French leader himself.

Collated, complete.