BIB_ID
118239
Accession number
MA 266
Creator
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
Display Date
undated [after 1792].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (55 p.), bound ; 31.9 cm
Notes
The original manuscript of the prince de Nassau-Siegen's memoirs, from which this extract was made by Talleyrand, is said to have been lost.
With an attestation (in an unknown hand) on a preliminary leaf concerning the provenance of the manuscript.
With an attestation (in an unknown hand) on a preliminary leaf concerning the provenance of the manuscript.
Provenance
M. Perret (Talleyrand's secretary); by descent to his step-brother the General Bachelu; Jacques Charavay; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1909.
Summary
An extract concerning the battle of Valmy (September, 1792) from the memoirs of the French adventurer and officer Charles Henri Nicolas Otton, prince de Nassau-Siegen. Titled by Talleyrand: "De la bataille de Valmy; extraite de mémoires inédite du prince de Nassau-Siegen, amiral au service de Catherine II, et son Commissaire à l'armée des Princes français, pendant les anées 1790, 91, 92, 93, etc." Written on the rectos and versos of 28 leaves, and with a note in an unknown hand on p. 55 indicating that Nassau-Siegen's memoirs have not been published in Germany or France.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.9 cm)
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