(History). Guy Joly. "Mémoires de M. Joly, conseiller du roi au châtelet de Paris pour servir d'éclaircissement et de suite aux mémoires de Mr le Cardinal de Retz. In Rotterdam, with the heirs of Leers. 1718. Two volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary basane. Spine with richly decorated nerves. Colored endpapers. Slightly missing in the headings of the 2 volumes. Corners and boards a little rubbed. A good copy. Published the same year as the original edition. A polemical text by Joly, which establishes a complex dialogue with that of the cardinal. Critical when Retz neglects his fight against Mazarin or for the archbishopric, Joly vigorously defends the political action of the prelate, of whom he builds a coherent image in the service of a tempered vision of the monarchy. (B. Tribout in " Dix septième siècle ").

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