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LA RUE (abbé Gervais de). Essais historiques sur les bardes, les jongleurs et les trouvères normands et anglo-normands, suivis de pièces de Malherbe, qu'on ne trouve dans aucunes éditions de ses France. Caen, Mancel, 1834. Three large vol. in-8, post. Half red morocco with corners outlined with gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated with long gilt irons (Romantic style), gilt head, front. Engraved, [4] ff, LXXIX-312 pp. + [2] ff, 395 pp. + 396 pp. one of the rare copies on large untrimmed Hollande jesus paper with very wide margins. Ex-libris label. A few rare, pale freckles, a very fine bound copy. "This work, the fruit of forty years of conscientious research in France and England, provides a comprehensive summary of the history of Normandy in the Middle Ages", says Frère (II, 162). Born in Caen in 1751, Abbé de La Rue emigrated to England in 1792. There, he set about unearthing numerous unpublished medieval manuscripts, including poems by Marie de France. Returning to France after the Revolution, he published Essai sur les bardes..., in which he develops a sound theory on the origins and early development of the French language. Etiq. Ex-libris H. Houyvet (Frère II, 163).
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LA RUE (abbé Gervais de). Essais historiques sur les bardes, les jongleurs et les trouvères normands et anglo-normands, suivis de pièces de Malherbe, qu'on ne trouve dans aucunes éditions de ses France. Caen, Mancel, 1834. Three large vol. in-8, post. Half red morocco with corners outlined with gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated with long gilt irons (Romantic style), gilt head, front. Engraved, [4] ff, LXXIX-312 pp. + [2] ff, 395 pp. + 396 pp. one of the rare copies on large untrimmed Hollande jesus paper with very wide margins. Ex-libris label. A few rare, pale freckles, a very fine bound copy. "This work, the fruit of forty years of conscientious research in France and England, provides a comprehensive summary of the history of Normandy in the Middle Ages", says Frère (II, 162). Born in Caen in 1751, Abbé de La Rue emigrated to England in 1792. There, he set about unearthing numerous unpublished medieval manuscripts, including poems by Marie de France. Returning to France after the Revolution, he published Essai sur les bardes..., in which he develops a sound theory on the origins and early development of the French language. Etiq. Ex-libris H. Houyvet (Frère II, 163).
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