Author: Genlis, Madame de [ Stéphanie Félicité, de Saint-Aubin ]
Title: Le Siége De La Rochelle, Ou Le Malheur Et La Conscience Tome Deuxieme [only]
Description: printed by P de la Ponte, 15 Poland Street, for B Dulau & Co, Soho Square, 1808, 2nd edition. Half calf over marbled boards, G. [iv]+251pp, leather very worn & rubbed lower board held by the cords & with the hinge split, a fair copy. Ex Libris Charlotte Mary Peters with her attractive armorial bookplate on the pastedown, ODD Volume. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ The second volume of de Comtesse de Genlis' work of historical fiction, of which she wrote much in order to survive following the French revolution & her exile from France. Charlotte Mary Peters [ 1788 - 1876 ] married the youngest son of the architect Herney Holland & bore him 15 children.

Keywords: fiction, literature, french literature