FLEISCHMANN, Hector. An Unknown Son of Napoleon (Count Leon).

FLEISCHMANN, Hector. An Unknown Son of Napoleon (Count Leon).FLEISCHMANN, Hector. An Unknown Son of Napoleon (Count Leon). New York, John Lane, 1914. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 291, photogravure portrait frontispiece retaining tissue guard, and 8 plates after Ledoux, Delaroche, et al.; spine faded, a little foxing throughout, nonetheless a very good copy; light wear and bumping to extremities, gift inscription to front free endpaper, very light and occasional spoting, a few leaves

FLEISCHMANN, Hector. An Unknown Son of Napoleon (Count Leon). New York, John Lane, 1914.

8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. 291, photogravure portrait frontispiece retaining tissue guard, and 8 plates after Ledoux, Delaroche, et al.; spine faded, a little foxing throughout, nonetheless a very good copy; light wear and bumping to extremities, gift inscription to front free endpaper, very light and occasional spoting, a few leaves roughly opened; a good copy of an increasingly scarce title.

First edition in English, the American issue. Fleischmann was the author and editor of a number of works on revolutionary and republican France, including Napoléon et l'amour (Paris: 1909), Pauline Bonaparte et ses amants (Paris: 1910), Victor Hugo, Waterloo, Napoléon (Paris: 1912), and Napoléon III et les femmes (Paris: 1913). The present title was originally published in French as Bâtarde d'empereur, d'après les papiers du baron de Menneval ... et de nombreux documents inédits (Paris: 1913), and is an account of the comte Léon (1806-1881) and his mother Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne (1787-1868), which draws on a number of unpublished manuscripts, particularly from the collections of the de Méneval family.

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