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Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein (Paperback)
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Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Marie-Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de la Rochejaquelein
(1772-1857) was brought up at Versailles, a god-daughter to Louis
XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, she married her
cousin, the Marquis de Lescure. After the execution of the king,
she accompanied Lescure to La Vendee where a Royalist insurrection
was waged from 1793 to 1796. Widowed in 1793, she later married
Lescure's cousin, Louis, Marquis de La Rochejacquelein, brother of
one of the Royalist leaders. Her memoir, first published in 1815
and translated and reprinted many times, remains one of the most
authentic records of this period. Although understandably partisan,
she reports atrocities carried out by both sides with great
immediacy. This reissue is taken from the 1827 Edinburgh edition,
with a preface by Sir Walter Scott. Scott draws parallels between
the Vendeen insurrection and the civil war in Scotland waged by the
Covenanters.
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