Author: HAY, MALCOLM
Title: Prince in Captivity
Description: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society. 1960, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy. Coloured portrait of the Prince to frontispiece. Dustjacket is G+ and is price clipped. Based on the memoirs and unpublished letters of Antoinne Philippe D'Orleans Duc De Montpensier, 1775 - 1807. A unique memoir written whilst the Prince was imprisoned under the Terror at the Fort St. Jean at Marseilles and never before translated into English. The second son of 'Philippe Egalite' he was the Duke of Orleans and brother of Louis Philippe, who in 1830 became King of the French. A1D. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Philippe D'Orleans Duc de Montpensier, Philippe Egalite


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