Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray — Amours Du Chevalier de Faublas

Paris, Chez Tous Les Libraires, 1884. Leather. A French novel in four volumes from playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (June 1760 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, and diplomat. Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas. The heroine, Lodoiska, was modelled on the wife of a jeweller in the Palais Royal, with whom he had an affair. She divorced her husband in 1792 and married Louvet in 1793. Includes frontispiece illustrations to the beginning of each volume. Complete in four volumes. In French. In a morocco binding. Externally, very smart, lightly rubbed in places. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .