Medical guide for mothers, by doctor Priou.
Published in Paris at the Deforges bookshop, 1846, 111 p. gilded on slices, in-12 format, vintage binding in red leather, ribbed back, title in gold letters on the cover: "To Her Royal Highness Madame la Duchesse de Nemours".
Damage at the back.
H. 19 x L. 14 cm.
Provenance
Sale of Olivier Coutau-Bégarie, Drouot, May 18, 2009, lot 251.
History
Victoire Auguste Françoise Antoinette Julienne Louise de Saxe-Cobourg-Kohary, duchesse de Nemours (1822-1857), daughter of Ferdinand de Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha and his wife the wealthy Hungarian princess Antoinette de Koháry, she is also the sister of the king consort Ferdinand II of Portugal and Prince Auguste de Saxe-Cobourg-Koháry (1818-1881) who married in 1843 Princess Clémentine of Orleans. Finally, Victoire is also the niece of Leopold I of Belgium and the first cousin of Prince Consort Albert of the United Kingdom and his wife Queen Victoria.
On April 26, 1840, Princess Victoire married Prince Louis of Orleans (1814-1896), Duke of Nemours at the Château de Saint-Cloud. The prince is the second son of the French king Louis-Philippe I (1773-1850) and his wife Queen Marie-Amélie (1782-1866), princess of the Two Sicilies.
Of great beauty, the Duchess of Nemours is the cousin and close friend of Queen Victoria, which facilitates the exile of Orleans in England after 1848. She died of childbirth in 1857, aged 34 , in exile at the castle of Claremont House, in England.