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Autograph; lxxiii, 324; 426 pages; Each volume bears the ownership signature of "Susan Mary Patten" [later Alsop] on ffep. Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers,shallow chipping along edges, spines worn. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of a diplomat, a descendant of founding father John Jay and served with her first husband Bill Patten at the American Embassy in Paris in the 1950s. When her husband died in 1960, she married Joseph Alsop, the journalist, the following year. In the 1970s she embarked on her own literary career producing "To Marietta From Paris: 1945-1960" (1974), followed by "Lady Sackville: A Biography" (1978), "Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris" (1982), and "The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815" (1984). Her Georgetown homes (both with and without Alsop) hosted dignitaries, publishers and a variety of interesting people during the 1960s and 1970s including such luminaries as John F. Kennedy, Phil Graham, Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society," (to which she rather objected). Charles-Joseph Lamoral, 7th Prince de Ligne in French;(1735 1814) was a Field Marshal, prolific writer, intellectual, member of the princely family of Ligne. He fought as a field officer during several famous battles during the Seven Years' War and briefly returned to military duty in the War of the Bavarian Succession. He performed an important diplomatic mission to Catherine the Great in 1787 and led troops against the Ottoman Empire at Belgrade in 1789. Beginning in the 1770s, he authored an impressive volume of work. After his estates in the Austrian Netherlands were lost to France during the War of the First Coalition, he lived in Vienna. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated. Codice articolo 43775
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Titolo: Fragments de L'Histoire de Ma Vie [Two ...
Casa editrice: Librairie Plon, Paris
Data di pubblicazione: 1928
Legatura: Original Printed Wrappers
Condizione: Very Good-
