Description
La Saxe galante.
- Hardcover: 416pp
- Binding: leather
- Language: French
- Publish Date: 1743
- Publisher: Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie
- Shipping Weight: 250 g
- Condition: Good
- Dimensions: 15,5 x 9 cm
Original ed. of this scandalous chronicle of the life of the King of Saxony, August II. “Advisor to Frederick the Great in Berlin and great European traveler, Pölnitz (1692-1775) gives us here a seductive portrait of the life at the court of Dresden in the eighteenth century, court that tried to imitate, without ever being able to equal, that of Versailles. Observer, intriguing and talkative, the author presents us with the pomp and wealth of the Nordic kingdom, as well as the erotic debauches of his king, Germanic Casanova having the reputation of having left behind some 400 illegitimate children “.
