+ − N Y Times 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
Pub W 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 260w
ROCHECHOUART, LOUIS VICTOR LÉON, comte de.[[2]] Memoirs of the Count de Rochechouart; auth. tr. by Frances Jackson. *$5 Dutton
20–17881
“These memoirs are a first-class historical document of the period before and after the Napoleonic wars. The Count de Rochechouart was only a lad when the revolution broke out, and practically without money he made his way across Europe and took service with the Emperor of Russia, whom he served until 1814, when he was appointed to a military post under the restored Bourbons in Paris, and took a prominent part in the refounding of royalist France.”—Sat R
“His narrative is of absorbing interest, in itself: material enough for a dozen historical romances, told with vivacity, a wealth of illuminative anecdote. The version is faithful and admirably written, a valuable contribution to French and European history in our language.”
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“The Rochechouart memoirs become thin and unsatisfactory after the peace, and give few details of the new French society which Balzac was afterwards to describe so brilliantly; and with the count’s retirement into the country in 1822, they practically cease. But as they stand, they are a valuable contribution to a period of which we can never have too much information.”