Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry - With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV

"Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry: With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV" by Etienne-Léon baron de Lamothe-Langon is a brief biography of Madame Du Barry and memoirs since she obtaining the attention from Louis XV until she died. Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed, by guillotine, during the French Revolution due to accounts of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés flee from the Revolution. The King, among many others, was enamored with her and claimed she was his favorite courtesan.