[EPIGRAMS]. Selection of epigrams. In French, manuscript on paper. France, ca. 1750 or shortly thereafter. 24 pp. Bound in 19th century blue half-sheepskin, smooth spine titled throughout. Beautifully calligraphed manuscript containing a selection of saucy, comic or witty epigrams. Most of them are actually dated 1749, for example the verses from Frederick II of Prussia to Baculard d'Arnaud and the latter's reply to the king. The "Requête de Godonesche musicien ordinaire de la musique du roi", found in the Clairambault manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and which Adolphe Jullien seems to have been the first to publish in La Comédie de la Cour, must also be of this date, as well as the cruel quatrain on the death of Madame de Tencin.

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