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LOSME DE MONTCHESNAY, Jacques de] - Satires nouvelles.
See original version (French)
289
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LOSME DE MONTCHESNAY, Jacques de] - Satires nouvelles.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
LOSME DE MONTCHESNAY, Jacques de] - Satires nouvelles. Paris, Charles Osmont, 1698. In-4, (27) ff, the Satire nouvelle contre les femmes has a separate title addressed to Charles Osmont, but follows the previous quires, fawn half calf (BELLEVALLÉE).
First edition. Losme de Monchesnay (Paris 1666 - Chartres 1740) wrote for the Italian Theatre. His first play, La Cause des femmes, was performed in 1687. He was a friend of Boileau, whom he celebrated in the Boloeana published in 1742. His three satires are on L'Esclavage des passions - L'Education des enfants - Contre les femmes, imitated from Juvenal. In the latter, he apologised for echoing Boileau, who had published his own in 1694.
See original version (French)
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