Author: Louvet de Couvray
Title: Les Adventures Du Chevalier de Faublas
Description: Bruxelles, Librairie Universelle, 1869. Leather. A new edition of Couvray's Adventures of Chevalier du Faublas. Complete in four volumes and illustrated with plates. Text is in French. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (June 12, 1760 - August 25, 1797), was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat. Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas. The heroine, Lodoiska, was modelled on the wife of a jeweller in the Palais Royal, with whom he had an affair. She divorced her husband in 1792 and married Louvet in 1793. Attractively bound in read calf with gilt titles to spines and marbled boards. Externally, smart with mild wear to extremities and slight rubbing to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with light scattered spotting and the occasional handling mark. Tidemarks to the top of the gutter to volume I. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: Faublas Chevalier French Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai Chevalier None


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