Lettres d'une Péruvienne vols. 1-2 - Graffigny, Françoise de 1695-1758 (Paris Duchesne, 1761)
Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758), better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
Letters from a Peruvian Woman is a 1747 epistolary novel. It tells the story of Zilia, a young Incan princess, who is abducted from the Temple of the Sun by the Spanish during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. In a series of letters to her fiancé Aza, who is also the Sapa Inca, Zilia tells the story of her capture, her rescue by French sailors, her befriending of the captain Déterville and her introduction to French society.
Originally published in 1747
Small, brown leather bindings, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Novel; Paris (France); Montesquieu; muziek; Voltaire