Memoirs of the Duc de Lauzun (Armand Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron), 1747-1783.

xi, [3], 364 pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles & rules, gilt fleur-de-lis and insect designs to corners of front board within blind-stamped rules. The memoirs of a French dignitary known by contemporaries as a 'favourite of Marie Antoinette.' Armand Louis de Gontaut, later the duc de Biron and often referred to by historians simply as Biron, played important roles in the American and French Revolutionary Wars.