The Chevalier de Ravanne
Volume 1, Part 7 of a First Translation
In 1740, a book called The Memoirs of the Chevalier de Ravanne was published. Its antihero, the eponymous chevalier, a musketeer and page to the Duc d’Orléans, recounts his supposed life story, detailing the high life and low life of Regency-era France. It is in fact not a memoir but a novel. Authorship is attributed to the Abbé de Varenne, who was a ro…
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