BIBLIOGRAPHY.--There is no trustworthy or complete edition of the
writings and correspondence of Louis XVIII. The _Mémoires de Louis
XVIII. recueillis et mis en ordre par M. le duc de D. ..._ (12 vols.,
Paris, 1832-1833) are compiled by Lamothe-Langon, a well-known
compiler of more or less apocryphal memoirs. From the hand of Louis
XVIII. are: _Relation d'un voyage à Bruxelles et à Coblentz_, 1791
(Paris, 1823, with dedication to d'Avaray); and _Journal de
Marie-Thérèse de France, duchesse d'Angoulême, corrigé et annoté par
Louis XVIII._, ed. Imbert de St Amand (Paris, 1896). Some of his
letters are contained in collections, such as _Lettres d'Artwell;
correspondance politique et privée de Louis XVIII., roi de France_
(Paris, 1830; letters addressed to d'Avaray); _Lettres et instructions
de Louis XVIII. au comte de Saint-Priest_, ed. Barante (Paris, 1845);
_Talleyrand et Louis XVIII., corr. pendant le congrès de Vienne,
1814-1815_, ed. Pallain (1881; trans., 2 vols., 1881); see also the
corr. of Castlereagh, Metternich, J. de Maistre, the Wellington
Dispatches, &c., and such collections as _Corr. diplomatique de Pozzo
di Borgo avec le comte de Nesselrode_ (2 vols., 1890-1897), the
correspondence of C. de Rémusat, Villèle, &c. The works of E. Daudet
are of the greatest importance, and based on original documents; the
chief are: _La Terreur Blanche_ (Paris, 1878); _Hist. de la
restauration 1814-1830_ (1882); _Louis XVIII. et le duc Decazes_
(1899); _Hist. de l'émigration_, in three studies: (i.) _Les Bourbons
et la Russie_ (1886), (ii.) _Les Émigrés et la seconde coalition_
(1886), (iii.) _Coblenz_, 1789-1793 (1890). Developed from these with
the addition of much further material is his _Hist. de l'émigration_
(3 vols., 1904-1907). Also based on original documents is E. Romberg
and A. Malet, _Louis XVIII. et les cent-jours à Gand_ (1898). See also
G. Stenger, _Le Retour des Bourbons_ (1908); Cte. L. de Remâcle,
_Bonaparte et les Bourbons. Relations secrèts des agents du cte. de
Provence sous le consulat_ (Paris, 1899). For various episodes, see
Vicomte de Reiset, _La Comtesse de Balbi_ (Paris, 1908; contains a
long bibliography, chiefly of memoirs concerning the emigration, and
is based on documents); J. B. H. R. Capefigue, _La Comtesse du Cayla_
(Paris, 1866); J. Turquan, _Les Favorites de Louis XVIII._ (Paris,
1900); see also the chief memoirs of the period, such as those of
Talleyrand, Chateaubriand, Guizot, duc de Broglie, Villèle, Vitrolles,
Pasquier, the comtesse de Boigne (ed. Nicoullaud, Paris, 1907), the
Vicomte L. F. Sosthène de la Rochefoucauld (15 vols., Paris,
1861-1864); and the writings of Benjamin Constant, Chateaubriand, &c.
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