125. VILLÈLE (Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph de). Memoirs and correspondence. Paris, Librairie académique Didier, Perrin et Cie, 1888-1890. 5 volumes in-8, red half-chagrin with bands, spine decorated, gilt fillet on the edge of the boards, covers preserved, spine faded (modern binding).ORIGINAL EDITION, ONE OF THE 5 EXEMPLAIRES ON WHATMAN (n° 1), only large paper. 6 plates out of the text, that is to say: a portrait and 5 facsimiles. "The writing of these memoirs was undertaken around 1839. The story is interrupted in 1816, thereafter we have only materials collected by Villèle. One will retain in volume I: chapters IV (the Bourbon island), V (the return in France in 1807 and the trade of Bordeaux), VI (the battle of Toulouse and the action of the royalist agents in the South), IX (unfavourable portraits of certain craftsmen of the Restoration: Vitrolles, Louis, Talleyrand). These memoirs shed light on the feelings of a notable royalist at the end of the Empire, even if certain judgements were influenced by later events" (Jean Tulard, Nouvelle bibliographie critique des mémoires sur l'époque napoléonienne, Paris, Droz, 1991, n° 1490). ONE OF THE GREATEST ULTRA-ROYALIST FIGURES OF THE RESTAURATION, LE COMTE DE VILLELE (1773-1854) was a minister almost continuously from 1821 to 1827, with the functions of President of the Council from 1822. He was the friend and then the opponent of François-René de Chateaubriand.
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