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ROUX DE LABORIE (Anatole). Eloge du Duc d'Enghien, speech that won the eloquence prize at the Société royale des bonnes-lettres, session of May 30, 1827. Paris, Trouvé, 1827, in-8, 52 pp. in long-grained fawn morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt garlands, fillets and fleurs-de-lis, framed in septuple gilt fillet on the covers with fleurs-de-lis spandrels, gilt cross-hatching on the edges, gilt edges, garland of fleurs-de-lis framed on the inside covers (Simier). A copy bearing the coat of arms of Louis-Henri-Joseph de Bourbon (1756-1830), Prince de Condé [although he challenged the title on the death of his father] and father of the Duc d'Enghien. OHR 2637-3 (cites our work as a reference). The work also belonged to the library of the Duchesse de Berry in Rosny (ex-libris vignette pasted on the first endpapers) and to the collection of Eugène Chatoney. BONDED WITH: I. AUDIBERT (Louis-François-Hilarion) : Éloge du Duc d'Enghien, speech that won an eloquence prize at the Société royale des bonnes-lettres, session of May 31, 1827. Paris, C. J. Trouvé, 1827, 57 pp. - II. ROGER (Jean-François): Rapport sur les ouvrages qui ont concouru pour le prix d'éloquence [de la Société royale des bonnes-lettres] décerné dans la séance extraordinaire du 30 mai 1827. Paris, C. J. Trouvé, 1827, 20 pp. A fine copy. Simier's signature on spine and label on flyleaf.
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