FOUR, le Commandant. Une Bisontine, Dame du Palais de l'Impé - Lot 208

FOUR, le Commandant. Une Bisontine, Dame du Palais de l'Impératrice Joséphine, Madame de Vaudey. Besançon, Jacques et Demontrond, 1931. In-8°, 27 pp. Protective cover with flaps, handwritten label. Offprint from the Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et arts de Besançon, with the author's signature, dated August 22, 1931. Enriched with an autograph letter signed by Madame de Vaudey, "la baronne de ...", no place, Saturday May 15 [18..], addressed to Ladvocat, 3 pp. and 3 l. In-4°. She is astonished to find in Constant's Mémoires the Journal de Voyage she made with Joséphine, explains how this "leak" could have occurred, but does not explain how Ladvocat could have obtained notes she had entrusted to an English lady, very curious about everything relating to the Emperor. She protests that it was said that this Journal had earned her the Emperor's leave. Élisabeth le Michaud d'Arçon de Vaudey (Besançon, 1773-Paris, 1863), is famous for having been Napoleon's mistress. With signed autograph letter from Henri Saffroy to Commandant Four, Paris, November 6, 1933, offering this letter from Madame de Vaudey. 3 pp. ½ in-8°.