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LENOTRE, G[eorges]. Le vrai chevalier de maison-rouge a. d. j. gonzze de rougeville 1761-1814 d'apres des documents inedits.

Paris. Librairie Academique Didier, Perrin et Cie., 1905.
8vo. [2], 327pp, [5]. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's printed powder-blue wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed.Marbled endpapers, blind-stamp of John Fowles to front blank fly-leaf, leaves browned, one leaf detached and chipped at margins.
An early twentieth century edition of historian Georges Lenotre's (1855-1935), authoritative biography of French Army officer and counter-revolutionary Alexandre Dominique Joseph Gonsse de Rougeville (1761-1814), first published in 1894.

John Fowles (1926-2005), English novelist, notable works include The Magus (1965) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969).
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 28110