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050 10 $aDC137.5.L3$bA213 1791
050 00 $aThacher FR364
100 1 $aLa Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois,$ccomtesse de,$d1756-1791.
240 10 $aVie de Jeanne de St. Rémy de Valois.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe life of Jane de St. Remy de Valois, heretofore Countess de La Motte :$bcontaining a circumstantial and exact detail of the many extraordinary events which have attended this unfortunate lady from her birth, and contributed to raise her to the dignity of confidant and favorite of the Queen of France : some farther particulars relative to the mysterious transaction of the diamond necklace : her trial, condemnation, and imprisonment in the Salpetriere, her almost miraculous escape from thence, with many curious and interesting particulars of her journey through serveral provinces of France, under different disguises : also, an address to the National Assembly, supplicating a new trial /$cwritten by herself.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for J. Bew ...,$c1791.
300 $a2 v. :$bill. (engraving), port. ;$c21 cm. (8vo)
500 $aThe original French ed. has also been attributed to Choderlos de Laclose or Charles Théveneau de Morande. Cf. Quérard.
500 $aVol. 1: xv, [1], 451, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates(?); v. 2: [2], 424, 63, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates.
510 4 $aQuérard, J.M. Supercheries littéraire (2. éd.),$cII, columns 648-649
510 4 $aBM,$cCXXIX, column 495
510 4 $aThacher,$cII, p. 55 (French Revolution)
500 $aAppendix: v. 2, 63 p. at end.
500 $aLC copy imperfect: wanting port.$5DLC
500 $aLC copy bound into 1 v.; with a ms. statement attributed to Thomas Carlyle, in Fraser's magazine, describing the censorship and burning of the 1st French ed. of this work. This incident is also described in Quérard.$5DLC
600 10 $aLa Motte, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois,$ccomtesse de,$d1756-1791.
650 0 $aDiamond Necklace Affair, France, 1785.
651 0 $aFrance$xCourt and courtiers$vBiography.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yLouis XVI, 1774-1793.
700 1 $aLaclos, Choderlos de,$d1741-1803.
700 1 $aThéveneau de Morande, Charles,$d1741-1805.
710 2 $aJohn Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC