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DORAT (Claude Joseph) Mélanges littéraires, or Journal des D…
See original version (French)
293
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DORAT (Claude Joseph) Mélanges littéraires, or Journal des D…
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €120
Voluntary lot
Description
DORAT (Claude Joseph)
Mélanges littéraires, or Journal des Dames, dedicated to the Queen. March 1777 – March 1778. Paris, Vve Thiboust, 1777–78.
5 volumes in-12.
Contemporary half fawn marbled sheepskin, smooth decorated spines with red title labels and volume numbers, red edges.
Claude Joseph Dorat, also known as Chevalier Dorat, was a French poet and playwright. He joined the King’s Musketeers but soon left the army. He began to move in literary circles, the theatre and among fashionable women. He published works in many different genres: poems, tragedies, comedies, tales, fables, epistles, odes, Heroides… Dorat inspired a large number of poets who came to be known as the ‘School of Dorat’.
Associated with Fréron and championed by *L’Année littéraire*, he declared himself an enemy of the philosophers, who waged a fierce war against him, and found himself opposed by the Encyclopédistes.
In 1777, Dorat edited the *Journal des Dames*, which had been founded in 1759. Dorat subsequently handed over the journal to Mercier.
Provenance: Printed bookplate from the Bonnard library.
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