Count Charles-Albert de Maugny Fifty years of... Lot 43

Count Charles-Albert de Maugny Fifty years of memories 1859-1909 Preface by René Doumic and a portrait of the author Paris Plon 1914 in8 dark blue morocco with corners untrimmed gilt head cover First edition of this interesting work concerning this period One of the 12 copies of the first edition on Hollande Signed autograph letter to the countess MH Starzyriska Note: son of the last Governor of the Sardinian Savoy, General Joseph Marie Clément de Maugny. Count Charles-Albert was ex-officer of the Sardinian army, was ex-military attaché in Persia, familiar with the entourage of Napoleon III, social columnist who published under the pseudonym of "ZED", he was a member of the Jockey Club . And indeed, Countess Marguerite-Hortense Starzynska was the second wife of her uncle, Count Boleslaw Starzynski, a Polish painter and sculptor living in Paris at that time.