[HENNEQUIN (Jérôme)].

Ɵ Regrets on the miseries befallen to France by the Civil Wars. With two prayers to God, by H. H. Parisien. Paris, Denis du Pré, 1569. Booklet in-4, brown morocco, jansenist, interior lace, gilt edges (Riviere & Son). First edition of the only collection published by Jérôme (or Hiérosme) Hennequin, religious poet who is inspired here by the Discours des misères de ce temps (1562), the most famous of Ronsard's political speeches. Like the Vendômois, the poet does not hesitate to deplore the sad situation of France : Toy estranger who comes here to survey France, / And nothing of France, in France, esbahy does not perceive, / Fors that these old Palaces, & these walls which you see / De nouveau efforcez to fall in decadence. / [...] The ruined country, the bruslées Churches, / Are the remainder of France, ô by too great misfortune. The Regrets are composed of 31 sonnets. The introductory leaves contain a sonnet by Jean Antoine de Baïf and another by François d'Amboise. A short-margined copy; an old manuscript bookplate partly cut and illegible at the foot of the title. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-2, n°55. - Picot, Rothschild, n°2329. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°392.