Tilly Alexandre de Lot n° 265

Memoirs of Count Alexandre de Tilly to be used for the history of morals from the end of the 18th century - 1828. First edition of the first two volumes (volume 3 is missing): 356 + 370 pages. Published in Paris, by Les Marchands de la Nouveauté, in 1828. Covered with a brocaded cover. The whole is quite well preserved: usual rubbings on the headdresses and cracked bits. Inside quite fresh with some light freckles. Jacques-Pierre-Alexandre, Count of Tilly, born in Le Mans1,2, not in 1764 as his Memoirs say, but on August 7, 1761 3, parish of the Crucifix, died in Brussels, December 23, 1816, is a French soldier, adventurer and man of letters. Tilly has been represented as one of those cold, polished and nasty wheels of which Laclos reproduced the type. He is best known for his Memoirs full of gallant anecdotes, in which he talks at length about Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe, whom he tried in vain to conquer.