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LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à…
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282
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LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à…
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Estimate €250
Voluntary lot
Description
LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à Madame la Marquise de Neuville. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1680, in-12, (2) ff, 160 pp, gilt vellum, boards decorated with a medallion in the centre and a fleuron in the corners, spine gilt, gilt edges, edges a little faded.
VIOLLET LE DUC 574. LACHÈVRE III, 14. first edition. Contains 85 pieces, 66 by Madame de Lauvergne, two by the Comtesse de La Suze, and one attributed to Charles Perrault. The poems of Madame de Lauvergne ''are infinitely superior to those of the Desmarests, the Coras, the Le Laboureur, and the Dassoucy. The first piece in particular, entitled Caprice d'un malade, is a model of style and good humour. This collection, which I believe to be very rare, consists of elegies, a poem about Adonis, madrigals and portraits in prose, a kind of composition that was very fashionable at the time. There is sense, correctness and taste in all of it''. (Viollet Le Duc). Contains one of the very first Sapphic poems in French literature: Sonnet pour Mademoiselle Godefroy.
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