VIEL CASTEL (Horace, comte de)

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VIEL CASTEL (Horace, comte de)
The Faubourg St-Germain. Gérard de Stolberg. Second edition. Paris, Ladvocat, 1837. 2 volumes in-8 of 2 ff.n.ch., XXXIX and 308 pp., 1 f.n.ch. ; 2 ff.n.ch., 333 pp. and 1 f.n.ch.: black velvet, smooth mute spine, plates and covers edged with a silver rod, lining and endpapers of ivory moiré paper, gilt edges, embossed cardboard cases (period binding). Second edition, published the same year as the original. Gérard de Stolberg is the first part of the Faubourg Saint-Germain (1836-1838), a triptych presented as a study of the customs of this district of the capital. The other two parts, entitled Madame la duchesse (1836) and Mademoiselle de Verdun (1838), were also published in two volumes and were also sold separately. The strange quirks of a collector of autographs. The novel tells the story of the loves of Gérard de Stolberg and the young Julie de Maulaincourt, wife of the Marquis de Lucheux, a selfish and boorish character who lived only for his fabulous collection of autographs, largely inherited from his father-in-law and including letters from Richelieu, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Robespierre, Napoleon, etc., an order for Rhine wine from Goethe, a note from Byron to his servant, etc. The novel also tells the story of the love affair between the two men. "Our great men today write far too much; their autographs are no rarity: death alone begins to make them more precious. ...] I am often obliged to destroy a hundred letters of a single character to make the only one of his handwriting I want to keep more interesting: this happened to me with Madame de Staël." Count Horace de Viel Castel (1798-1864), grand-nephew of Mirabeau, is the author of novels written in the manner of Balzac. His Memoirs (1883), which concealed nothing, caused a scandal. An example of perfect elegance, covered in a very "faubourg Saint-Germain" binding in black velvet, with headdresses and plates edged with a thin silver rod.
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