Ex-United Service Club library with their bookplate to the front pastedown, otherwise very good in contemporary half calf on linen boards, spine gilt in compartments, joints a little rubbed, the upper joint just starting towards the head. [ii], 426pp. Paris, 1872.
It was Gramont’s highly anti-Prussian views and particularly his conduct leading to the “Ems” telegram incident which precipitated an unprepared France into war with Prussia. This is his defence of his position. He had retired in 1870 and died in 1880 without rehabilitation.
