DUGUAY-TROUIN: Mémoires de M. Du Gué-Trouin, chef d'escadre - Lot 88

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DUGUAY-TROUIN: Mémoires de M. Du Gué-Trouin, chef d'escadre - Lot 88
DUGUAY-TROUIN: Mémoires de M. Du Gué-Trouin, chef d'escadre des armées de S.M.T.C. Grand Cross of the Military Order of Saint Louis. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1732. In-12 contemporary marbled calf, spine decorated with nerves (some small losses of leather caused by worm work, small marginal worm gallery at the beginning of the volume) 3 ff. and 290 pages. Rare edition published two years after the original edition. Naturally modest and not wanting to offend anyone, Duguay-Trouin had agreed to write his memoirs on the condition that the book would not appear until after his death. However, he entrusted his manuscript to the Regent and then to Cardinal Dubois, both of whom were anxious to read it, and was surprised to see it published in 1730 in Amsterdam. This first clandestine edition, based on an imperfect copy, even spelled the author's name wrongly, Du Gué-Trouin. The Memoirs were therefore reprinted in 1740 by Pierre Godard de Beauchamp, friend of Duguay-Trouin, and Luc Jazier de La Garde, his nephew. "My style will make known that these Memoirs are written by the hand of a soldier", confided Duguay-Trouin. They reveal above all a sharp and fair mind, remaining simple after an extraordinary life, and a captain who pays tribute to many of his best sailors.
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