The Comte de Clermont
The Nineteenth Century vol.27 no.159
May 1890 pp.803-822
Ferdinand James Anselm de Rothschild
Notes
A history of the dissolute Comte de Clermont (1709-1771), a younger son of the nobility, who became an abbot, soldier and voluptuary. Ferdinand presents him as typical of the class who helped precipitate the French Revolution.