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Gramont, Mémoires de la vie du comte de

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER

Gramont, Mémoires de la vie du comte de, published anonymously at Cologne 1713, was written by Anthony Hamilton (?1646–1720), brother-in-law of the Comte de Gramont, who married Elizabeth Hamilton in 1663. The memoirs were edited (in French) by Horace Walpole and translated into English (with many errors) by Abel Boyer in 1714; and this translation, revised and annotated by Sir W. Scott , was reissued in 1811. A new translation was made in 1930 by Quennell , with an introduction and commentary by C. H. Hartmann.

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