BUSSY-RABUTIN - Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin, co - Lot 45

BUSSY-RABUTIN - Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy. Suivi de l'Usage des adversitez ou histoire de plus illustres favoris contenant un discours du comte de Bussy Rabutin enfants sur les divers évènemens de sa vie. Paris, Chez Jean Anisson, 1697; in-12, frontispiece, warning, 489 + table + 427 + table + 164 pp. bound in contemporary full calf, 5-rib spines, red titles, edges painted red. All 2 volumes. Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, known as Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693; cousin of Marie de Sévigné) was a career military officer and French courtier-writer. In 1634, he took part in the siege of La Mothe in Lorraine, and was exiled to his lands in Burgundy for participating in an orgy at Roissy during Holy Week in 1659. The appeal of Histoire amoureuse des Gaules lies mainly in the scandalous nature of the chronicle. Fine condition.