Mémoires de Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme - Bourdeille, Pierre de 1540-1614 (Leiden Sambix, 1699)
There also exists a fourth volume, see https://archive.org/details/mmoirescontenan00brangoog/page/n8
vol.3 = 09F22
Pierre de Bourdeille was a French historian, soldier and biographer.
De Bourdeille can hardly be regarded as a historian proper, and his Memoirs cannot be accepted as a very trustworthy source of information. But he writes in a quaint conversational way, pouring forth his thoughts, observations or facts without order or system, and with the greatest frankness.His works give a picture of the general court-life of the time, with its unblushing and undisguised profligacy. There is not an homme illustre or a dame galante in all his gallery of portraits who has not engaged in sexual immorality; and yet the whole is narrated with the most complete unconsciousness that there is anything objectionable in their conduct.[Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur and Abbé de Brantôme". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.]
ex libris Paolo Gmo. Galetti 1784 (manuscript)
La Vies des Hommes illustres & grands Capitaines estrangers de son temps.
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Biography; Biography