Confession of the marquise. Volume 2 (set in 2 volumes). Dumas A.

In the next volume of illustrated collected works of Alexander Dumas, the second (final) part of the novel “Confession of the Marquise.”

is the story of the amazing woman of the XVIII century Marie de Shamron, Marquisa du Defan. Her life was full of elegant turns and intricate prisoners, she easily and airy, she was friends with freestyle thoughts and philosophers, played cats-mouse with court adventurers and the powers of this world. Having decided in old age to tell the whole truth about her time, she begins to dictate scandalous memoirs, in which she sincerely and rather unceremoniously reveals many secrets of the era of the regency and Louis XV, talks about her acquaintance with Voltaire and Bomarsha, Didro and Rousseau, about glorious and inglorious prototypes the heroes of their immortal works, including, of course, she herself was.