Les Dernières Années du Marquis et de la Marquise de Bombelles

Drawing on personal journals and unpublished documents, the work recounts the final years of an aristocratic couple through episodes of travel, family reunions, and daily household life, set against frequent visits to salons and the royal court. It balances intimate portraiture with reports of social entertainments, musical evenings, and ceremonial duties, while chronicling encounters with ministers, official gatherings, and the mounting political agitation of the period. Episodic eyewitness entries and correspondence illuminate the tensions between private feeling and public responsibility and map the networks, loyalties, and atmosphere of a waning aristocratic world.