JOLY. Memoirs of M. Joly, royal adviser to the... Lot 26

JOLY. Memoirs of M. Joly, royal adviser to the Chatelet of Paris. To serve as a clarification and continuation of the Memoirs of Mr. C. de Retz. Rotterdam, Héritiers de Leers, 1798, 2 vol. in-12, title, 167-1 white and title, and 254 p., full brown calf of the time, decorated spine with nerves, title and tomaison coins (some hooks particularly on the upper case of the 1st vol.). Good copy. Original edition. Guy Joly was adviser at the Châtelet de Paris. Trustee of the rentiers of the Town hall, secretary, he wrote his memoirs, published shortly after those of Retz by the care of d'Argenson. Following his escape from the prison of Nantes, he fled to Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and England. During the Fronde, Guy Joly - he tells it himself - is the secretary and the man of Gondi's low works, particularly in the affair of the rents of the Town Hall. He still simulates an attack on himself. After Mazarin's death, he returns to France with Retz and negotiates on his behalf. In 1665, Retz and Joly separated "accusing each other of ingratitude". From 1667 onwards, he worked for the court, in particular defending the queen's rights against the treaties of the jurisconsult Stockmans. Then he wrote his memoirs (1643-1665), in which he gave a rather different version from the one Retz had wanted to give a year earlier in his own memoirs. D'Argenson and the Regent had wished to balance Retz's Memoirs with those of Guy Joly, so they published the two together.