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[LA BEAUMELLE (Laurent Angliviel de). Answer to the supplement of the Century of Louis XIV. Colmar, sn, 1754. In-12 of 166 pp. Marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, red tr. (period binding). Spines worn, corners worn, one spine missing, rubbed. First edition. (Barbier IV, 301; Bengesco I, 361-363.) "The Supplément au Siècle de Louis XIV is a reply to La Beaumelle and his critical notes. (...) La Beaumelle took his revenge "by a pamphlet entitled: Réponse au Supplément du Siècle de Louis XIV, in which, while telling Voltaire that he wants to be more polite and more moderate than he is, he tells him the least moderate and least polite insults of the world. In addition to insults, he reproaches him with having stolen the background of the dream of Henri IV from his Henriade in a piece of manuscript verse which he saw in the Bastille library." (Raynal, Nouvelles littéraires, in Volume II of Grimm's Correspondence, ed Garnier, p. 157). At the end of the Réponse au Supplément, etc. (pp. 119 and 155): 1. A Letter on my quarrels with M. de Voltaire, already printed several times, (Frankfort, 1753, in-12. - The Hague,- Paris; - Neufchâtel, etc.). 2° A Memoir of M. Voltaire apostilled by M.de la Beaumelle. (...) The Answer to the Supplement, "entirely recast," says Beuchot, was reprinted in 1763, under the title of : Lettres de M. de la Beaumelle à M. de Voltaire, London, J. Nourse, 1763, in-12 of 213 pp. (See Quérard, La France littéraire, vol. IV, p. 332)." Bengesco I, 361-363.
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[LA BEAUMELLE (Laurent Angliviel de). Answer to the supplement of the Century of Louis XIV. Colmar, sn, 1754. In-12 of 166 pp. Marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, red tr. (period binding). Spines worn, corners worn, one spine missing, rubbed. First edition. (Barbier IV, 301; Bengesco I, 361-363.) "The Supplément au Siècle de Louis XIV is a reply to La Beaumelle and his critical notes. (...) La Beaumelle took his revenge "by a pamphlet entitled: Réponse au Supplément du Siècle de Louis XIV, in which, while telling Voltaire that he wants to be more polite and more moderate than he is, he tells him the least moderate and least polite insults of the world. In addition to insults, he reproaches him with having stolen the background of the dream of Henri IV from his Henriade in a piece of manuscript verse which he saw in the Bastille library." (Raynal, Nouvelles littéraires, in Volume II of Grimm's Correspondence, ed Garnier, p. 157). At the end of the Réponse au Supplément, etc. (pp. 119 and 155): 1. A Letter on my quarrels with M. de Voltaire, already printed several times, (Frankfort, 1753, in-12. - The Hague,- Paris; - Neufchâtel, etc.). 2° A Memoir of M. Voltaire apostilled by M.de la Beaumelle. (...) The Answer to the Supplement, "entirely recast," says Beuchot, was reprinted in 1763, under the title of : Lettres de M. de la Beaumelle à M. de Voltaire, London, J. Nourse, 1763, in-12 of 213 pp. (See Quérard, La France littéraire, vol. IV, p. 332)." Bengesco I, 361-363.
