Reunion of two strong albums containing the... - Lot 7 - Coutau-Bégarie

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Reunion of two strong albums containing the... - Lot 7 - Coutau-Bégarie
Reunion of two strong albums containing the memories of the life of Apollonie de La Rochelambert, born in Bruges, started in 1814. Two albums in-folio, full red velvet, gilded brass spandrels, gilded metal countal crowns on the first plates (binding from the end of the 19th century). Each of his albums protected by a burgundy canvas case. Fabulous collection of nearly three hundred leaves, containing innumerable letters, manuscripts, lithographs, drawings, locks of hair, passports, photographs, announcements, detailing more than sixty years of a busy life, marked by the travels and intimacy of prominent figures of aristocratic life between Paris and Berlin. (Until 1884) This album was created for his eldest son, so that he could keep in mind the great episodes and the decisions taken in his mother's life. Here we give a few chapters: friendships in the convent, life in Montretout castle, loyalty to the Bourbons in exile and legitimacy, life in Berlin at the Prussian court, the fall of Louis-Philippe, numerous trips to Switzerland and Germany and to Frohsdorf, the imperial court in the Tuileries, the war in Italy in 1859, the war of 1870, the death of the Imperial Prince, life in high society under the new Republic. The first album opens with a handwritten letter: "I demand of my son, the Marquis / Aimé de La Rochelambert / and of my daughter-in-law, the Marquise / de la Rochelambert (Hélène) / that nothing be ever / removed from my two Albums/ letters, drawings and memories / of my life since / the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen / Such is my will / formal / Castle of Thévalles / 16 September one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight / Apollonia of Bruges / Dowager Marquise of La Rochelambert" Among the characters or families we come across in the pages, we can mention : Villèle, Golowkin, d'Agoult, Lavinsky, Hatzfeld, Lobkowitz, La Rochefoucauld, Montault, La
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