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Jean BALLESDENS, Les Fables d'Esophe Phrygien traduites en francois, et accompagnées de Maximes Morales Politiques, pour la conduite de la Vie, Au Roy, Paris, chez Guillaume Le Bé, 1645. In-12 in contemporary binding, spine ribbed and decorated (significant wear). Book containing a preface Au Roy, a preface A la Reyne Regente, then the Vie d'Esope Phrygien (131 p.) and Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien (280 p.). Magnificent and numerous black xylogravure illustrations in text and one out of text. (Title page partly detached and folded, defects, small tears and missing margins). Bernard TEYSSANDIER published a study of this RARE work in 2012 with EPURE - Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims: "Under the Ancien Régime, it was customary for the crown prince to leave the arms of women in his seventh year to learn his hard job as king. In 1645, the year of his "passage aux hommes", Jean Ballesdens (1595-1675) dedicated Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien to Louis XIV. The present volume reproduces this elegant book. It's obviously a pleasant book, embellished with numerous engravings. But it's also a useful book, since it adds linguistic instruction to ethical and political instruction. Personal secretary to chancellor Pierre Séguier and collector of rare books, Jean Ballesdens drew on his powerful patron's library to adapt the wide-ranging subject matter of his fables to the zeitgeist. Long ignored, his collection brings together a unique and unpublished cycle of woodcuts, and constitutes a singular milestone in the monumental history of the esopic corpus. This occasional work, of which only a handful are known today, sheds new light on La Fontaine's poetic choices and pedagogical inflexion when, in 1668, he dedicated his Fables choisies mises en vers to the son of the Sun King". (https://www.lcdpu.fr/books/825B8051-C7B6-4942-B009-7FA0AC799BAE). Our work has been declared "unobtainable" in Cioranescu's bibliography (https://crimel.hypotheses.org/487).
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Jean BALLESDENS, Les Fables d'Esophe Phrygien traduites en francois, et accompagnées de Maximes Morales Politiques, pour la conduite de la Vie, Au Roy, Paris, chez Guillaume Le Bé, 1645. In-12 in contemporary binding, spine ribbed and decorated (significant wear). Book containing a preface Au Roy, a preface A la Reyne Regente, then the Vie d'Esope Phrygien (131 p.) and Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien (280 p.). Magnificent and numerous black xylogravure illustrations in text and one out of text. (Title page partly detached and folded, defects, small tears and missing margins). Bernard TEYSSANDIER published a study of this RARE work in 2012 with EPURE - Editions et Presses universitaires de Reims: "Under the Ancien Régime, it was customary for the crown prince to leave the arms of women in his seventh year to learn his hard job as king. In 1645, the year of his "passage aux hommes", Jean Ballesdens (1595-1675) dedicated Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien to Louis XIV. The present volume reproduces this elegant book. It's obviously a pleasant book, embellished with numerous engravings. But it's also a useful book, since it adds linguistic instruction to ethical and political instruction. Personal secretary to chancellor Pierre Séguier and collector of rare books, Jean Ballesdens drew on his powerful patron's library to adapt the wide-ranging subject matter of his fables to the zeitgeist. Long ignored, his collection brings together a unique and unpublished cycle of woodcuts, and constitutes a singular milestone in the monumental history of the esopic corpus. This occasional work, of which only a handful are known today, sheds new light on La Fontaine's poetic choices and pedagogical inflexion when, in 1668, he dedicated his Fables choisies mises en vers to the son of the Sun King". (https://www.lcdpu.fr/books/825B8051-C7B6-4942-B009-7FA0AC799BAE). Our work has been declared "unobtainable" in Cioranescu's bibliography (https://crimel.hypotheses.org/487).
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