[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de)]. Les Mémoires. A Paris, - Lot 16

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[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de)]. Les Mémoires. A Paris, - Lot 16
[GUISE (Henri de Lorraine, Duc de)]. Les Mémoires. A Paris, chez Edme Martin et Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1668. In-4, (8 of which the 2nd blank)-795-(one blank) pp. in granite-brown calf, spine ribbed, cloisonné and fleuronné, decorated edges, edges speckled with red, binding a little worn with 3 incisions on the upper board, some marginal spotting (period binding). FIRST EDITION. RECIT SUR SA FOLLE EQUIPEE NAPOLITAINE DE 1647, where he thought he would win a throne by having the claims of the House of Lorraine to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies accepted, only to find himself a prisoner of the Spanish. The work was probably written by the Jansenist and future Academician Philippe Goibaud Du Bois, who was tutor to the Duke's nephew, Louis-Joseph de Lorraine (Duke of Joyeuse and later Duke of Guise). It was published by Saint-Yon, Henri de Lorraine's former secretary, probably as a companion piece to the Histoire des révolutions de la ville de Naples (1665-1667), published by Count Raymond de Modène, who took part in the adventure and was less than kind to the Duke (SHF, XVIIe siècle, vol. II, no. 785). ARCHbISHOP OF REIMS, DUKE OF GUISE AND PRETENDANT TO THE TRONE OF NAPLES, HENRI DE LORRAINE (1614-1664) was endowed with several abbeys as a child, and appointed to the see of Reims at the age of fifteen. The successive deaths of his elder brother (1639) and father (1640) made him Duke of Guise, and led him to leave the ecclesiastical state. He then led an adventurous and dissolute life: linked to all opponents of Cardinal de Richelieu, he took up arms against France and was sentenced to death in absentia (1641), but obtained a pardon after the death of Louis XIII in 1643. He then attempted to make himself King of Naples, using the inheritance of his ancestor René d'Anjou, and twice captured the city from the Spanish, in 1647 and 1654. He then remained in France and, as Grand Chamberlain, was one of the leading figures at the Court. Copperplate engraving of the Duc de Guise on the title.
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