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POETRY]. Collection of French verses, including odes, sonnets, epigrams, fables, madrigals and other types of poetry. In French, manuscript on paper. France, A Paris, le neuf May 1750, [1] f., 252 pp, [96] ff, [5] ff. of table, several hands, forma in-4 . Bound in green half calf with small corners, long spine decorated with cold fleurons, gilt roulettes simulating the nerves. Binding rubbed, hinge of the first board split. A true volume of " mixtures " (title given on the spine). (title given on the spine), the collection is composed of several pieces bound together. The only link is that most of them relate to the century of Louis XIV. - The first text gathers satires, epigrams, sonnets and other pieces in verse. It was composed by an admirer of Voltaire. Little suspected of bigotry, our man was on the other hand a bon vivant, lover of good food and women. - Copy of the Philippiques against the Duke of Orleans [the Regent], by Lagrange-Chancel. - Pieces from the beginning of the 17th century: 1/ Letter from Marie de Médicis on the trial of the Maréchal de Marillac 2/ Some pieces against Mazarin such as "Le Hardy frondeur à Mr le Duc de Beaufort", and "Sur la retraite des Mazarinettes au Val de Grâce", or "Verses against Mr le Prince de Condé". - Some pieces are in a very free vein, such as a "sonnet" and a "madrigal" - Several pieces on the Régiment de la Calotte, a facetious and satirical company created in 1702 . - The Court of Louis XIV inspired the satirists with in particular: " le Roy à mesdames de la Vallière et de Montespan " - " Les chambres de la Cour et de la Ville " attacks in quatrains noble characters of the time of the Fronde - " Logemens des Dames avec leurs proverbes " is a collection of epigrams, cruel portraits of some gallant ladies of the time To our knowledge it is unpublished. - The last 7 leaves are entitled "Idée de la personne, de la cour de la manière de vivre du roy de Prusse, 1753". Engraved bookplate (on the back cover) and handwritten bookplate (on the flyleaf): baron Eugène de Thysebaert.

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POETRY]. Collection of French verses, including odes, sonnets, epigrams, fables, madrigals and other types of poetry. In French, manuscript on paper. France, A Paris, le neuf May 1750, [1] f., 252 pp, [96] ff, [5] ff. of table, several hands, forma in-4 . Bound in green half calf with small corners, long spine decorated with cold fleurons, gilt roulettes simulating the nerves. Binding rubbed, hinge of the first board split. A true volume of " mixtures " (title given on the spine). (title given on the spine), the collection is composed of several pieces bound together. The only link is that most of them relate to the century of Louis XIV. - The first text gathers satires, epigrams, sonnets and other pieces in verse. It was composed by an admirer of Voltaire. Little suspected of bigotry, our man was on the other hand a bon vivant, lover of good food and women. - Copy of the Philippiques against the Duke of Orleans [the Regent], by Lagrange-Chancel. - Pieces from the beginning of the 17th century: 1/ Letter from Marie de Médicis on the trial of the Maréchal de Marillac 2/ Some pieces against Mazarin such as "Le Hardy frondeur à Mr le Duc de Beaufort", and "Sur la retraite des Mazarinettes au Val de Grâce", or "Verses against Mr le Prince de Condé". - Some pieces are in a very free vein, such as a "sonnet" and a "madrigal" - Several pieces on the Régiment de la Calotte, a facetious and satirical company created in 1702 . - The Court of Louis XIV inspired the satirists with in particular: " le Roy à mesdames de la Vallière et de Montespan " - " Les chambres de la Cour et de la Ville " attacks in quatrains noble characters of the time of the Fronde - " Logemens des Dames avec leurs proverbes " is a collection of epigrams, cruel portraits of some gallant ladies of the time To our knowledge it is unpublished. - The last 7 leaves are entitled "Idée de la personne, de la cour de la manière de vivre du roy de Prusse, 1753". Engraved bookplate (on the back cover) and handwritten bookplate (on the flyleaf): baron Eugène de Thysebaert.

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