[Manuscript]. Collection of some pieces of poetry and prose taken from the four volumes of the Oeuvres meslées of Mr. de F. d. S. R., exempt from the Guards of His Serene Highness the Prince of Condé. Sl, sd (c. 1760). In-4, [243] ff. n. eds., covered with a medium-sized, calligraphic, very legible handwriting (about 20 lines per page), with stencilled frames and ornaments, pink paper boards, smooth spine, speckled edges (period binding). Spine faded, hinges split. This poetic collection was composed with great care: it presents however two rather different spellings. Apart from very rare pieces addressed to men (two of which were addressed to his protector the Prince de Condé), they are gallant banter addressed between 1756 and 1759 to the same woman, under different names (generally Madame de M..., but also Madame de B ...., Mademoiselle de G ..., etc.), the author's only love, called in the texts Palmyre, Thémire, Glycère, Silvie, Zirphile, etc., and whose infidelity to the author was not known, and whose infidelity is said to have caused her lover to attempt suicide in 1761 (f. [4v]): but, as the good man is said to have taken an emetic drink along with a dose of opium, the harm was not extreme... Composed on various occasions, generally specified in the title, these poems do not form a very original production. The identification of the beautiful, cultured, learned woman seems as difficult as that of her lover. Attached: [15] loose leafs, bearing the same kind of pieces, in one of the two scripts of the body of the text.