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‎Memoires de la vie du comte de Grammont; contenant particulierement l'histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre, sous le regne de Charles II.seconde edition,‎

‎ Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1714. Hardcover Pages iv, 496, [2] pp.12mo.(17 cm). Brunet,3, p.29; Picot, 1693. reliure epoque tres abimee,manques au dos,coins frottes,texte correct;dans l’etat,photo sur demande,Picture and description upon request.‎

‎Thought to be written all or in part by Anthony Hamilton, Grammont s brother-in-law, a Jacobite officer who fought at the Boyne and settled in France after the first exile of the Stuarts. Grammont was an unscrupulous libertine and gambler who was eventually banished from the Court of Louis XIV for casting an eye (most certainly more) on one of the King"s favorites. Grammont apears to have dictated the first and most entertaining.section, down to his exile, to Hamilton while the last part, largely concerned with scandals of the court of Charles II, is by Hamilton. The memoirs are written in admirable French, in a light, easy, slightly ironic style, ‎