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JUVENAL DES URSINS, Jean – GODEFROY, Théodore
History of Charles VI, King of France, and of the memorable events that occurred during his reign, from the year MCCCLXXX to the year MCCCCXXII, preceded by ‘On the Origin of the Kings of Portugal, descended in the male line from the House of France which reigns today’.
Paris, published by Abraham Pacard, MDCXIV (1614),
4 unnumbered pages, 16 pages [of ‘On the Origin of the Kings of Portugal’], 8 unnumbered pages [Table of Contents], 599 pages.
Pages 508 and 509, numbered 408 and 409.
In-4°. Full contemporary binding in ivory-coloured vellum. External stitching. Spine slightly detached from the text block.
Lord Bracco’s ex libris on the endpaper.
Jean Juvénal des Ursins, born in 1388 and died in 1473, was the son of the powerful Provost of the Merchants of Paris, a close associate of King Charles VI. A lawyer at Parliament, he enjoyed a distinguished career as a political orator, diplomat and prelate. As Archbishop of Reims, he presided over the trial for the rehabilitation of Joan of Arc (1456).
A remarkable work on the life and deeds of King Charles VI of France from 1380 to 1422.
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