[ROUSSON, Jean]

Dialogue of three winegrowers of the country of Maine on the miseries of this time. By Jean Sousnor, sieur de la Nichilière. Second edition Rouen, David Ferrant, 1630 THREE WINEGROWERS TALK ABOUT RELIGION. WITNESS OF A FRENCH DIALOGUE OF THE XVIIth CENTURY: THE "MANCEAU". COPY QUOTED BY BRUNET. MISSING AT THE BNF In-8 (160 x 105 mm). Flower on the title page COLLATION : A-H8 I7 or 4 ff. n. ch., 133 pp. BINDING circa 1780, lemon morocco, framed with double cold fillet, long spine with vertical titling, scrolls on the edges and on the covers, gilt edges. PROVENANCE: Guillaume-Luc Bailly (1743-1809; characteristic annotation at the bottom of the last endpaper) -- viscount Morel de Vindé (Paris, March 17, 1823, No. 3156) -- price mark of a bookseller when binding the book mb abp Natural loss at the bottom of the last leaf, without any damage to the text Three winegrowers from Mance, named Matelin, Tiennot and Renault, meet and seriously discuss religious subjects. The first two speak French very well and even know how to speak a little Latin; the last one speaks only Manceau, that is, the dialect of the surroundings of Le Mans. Published for the first time in 1624, this diatribe against the slackening of ecclesiastical discipline seems to have been a great success in the bookstore: there were about ten editions until the 19th century. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J.-C. Brunet, Manuel du libraire, V, col. 466