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MANUSCRIT] - SAUVAL, Henri] - Reflections on the History of …
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MANUSCRIT] - SAUVAL, Henri] - Reflections on the History of …
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MANUSCRIT] - SAUVAL, Henri] - Reflections on the History of France (Amours des rois de France). S. l. n. d. (Paris?), last third of the 17th century. In-4, 245 pp, neatly written, first quire almost detached, paper yellowed, marbled fawn stockings, spine ribbed and decorated.
A much altered published manuscript, extending from the kings of the first race to the murder of Bussy d'Amboise. It was first published under the title ''Amours des rois de France sous plusieurs races,'' as a supplement to the Histoire et recherches des antiquités de la ville de Paris (1724) in 40 pp. folio, a supplement which does not appear in all copies. The printed version ends with King Louis XIII and ignores the kings of the first race. The text has been completely reworked and toned down, while retaining the order of exposition and some of Sauval's expressions. Another edition was published by the Marquis d'Argens under the title Mémoires historiques et secrets concernant les amours des rois de France, Paris, 1739, 164 pp. The parts concerning the kings of the first and second races are only slightly developed, and the others rewritten, but the following has been added: ''De la vérolle ou mal de Naples'', also present in the manuscript (pp. 379-404) published in part in 1724 under the title : L'Hôtel-Dieu exempté de recevoir les verolez. Sauval states in the manuscript preamble: ''To complete the scandalous history of the court of Paris, it remains to speak of the Evil of Naples, which in this past century spared few of the dissolute persons of the court and of Paris''. The second part of the manuscript (pp. 245-444) contains : La Chronique scandaleuse de Paris (pp. 245-376). - De la Verolle ou Mal de Naples (pp. 379-404) - Bordel roullant. Des charrettes, des coches, des chaises et autres voitures (pp. 407-444). La Chronique scandaleuse de Paris is a history of the capital's brothels, first published by Gay in Brussels in 1883. A second edition based on Sauval's original manuscript appeared in Paris in 1910. Both editions omitted a final anecdote (pp. 373-375) reported to Sauval by eyewitnesses: ''Some old men have told me that when they were young, they used to drive in these streets ...''. - an account of the humiliation of a prostitute perched on a donkey head to toe and forced into a cavalcade in this position. The part entitled "Rolling brothel. Des charrettes, des coches, des chaises et autres voitures (pp. 407-444)'' seems never to have been published. It also appears in the manuscript in the Baluze collection (see below). Henri Sauval (1623-1676) wrote a remarkable Histoire de Paris, providing a wealth of information on the daily life of Parisians. None of his works were published during his lifetime, but they circulated in manuscript form and were known to his friend Richard Simon, for example. The editor of the Chronique scandaleuse de Paris in 1910 said that he had found four manuscripts of it, apart from the one in the Baluze collection, which he used and which is said to be in Sauval's hand. Ours resembles the one used in the 1883 Gay edition, which also begins with ''Reflexions sur l'Histoire de France'' instead of ''Amours des Rois de France. Eighteenth-century ms. bookplate: Mihi & amicis, Cailleau. An 18th century note on the flyleaf tells us that the manuscript belonged to President Durey de Meinières (1705-1785), whose collection of manuscripts is held by the BNF.
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