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FURETIÈRE, Antoine - Nouvelle allégorique ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'Eloquence. Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1658. Pet. in-8, (7) ff, 171 pp, folding plate with small repair, heraldic stamp on title, contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated. TCH. III, 393; DRUJON II, 697; NODIER (Description raisonnée) no. 630. First publication by Furetière, whose lifelong quarrels with the Académie Française are well known. "This witty and piquant work contains a host of curious details about the literary history of the period in which it was written (...). (...) There are more singular and noteworthy facts in this little volume than can be found in fifty anecdotal works of the same period. This copy contains a folded plate which is often missing". (NODIER). "In it we see the princess Rhétorique, tired of the undisciplined temper of the Allusions and Equivoques, dismiss them and relegate them to the country of Pédanterie. These troops revolted, put Galimathias at their head, and, reinforced by the Antitheses, Hyperboles, Allegories, Epiphonemes, etc., etc., declared war on the Princess. For her part, Rhétorique beat her drum and, at the behest of Bon Sens, her prime minister, asked for help and assistance from the forty feudal barons of the Académie country. The troops of Galimathias, defeated and dispersed, are relegated to the distant lands of Pedanterie and Gymnasie, and freedom of conscience is proclaimed in matters of language." The most piquant aspect of the work is the malicious jabs Furetière makes with verve and glee against the authors of the time, whom he names in full, matching the style of each with the nature of the troops he is leading into battle: Thus, Chapelain leads comparisons and descriptions; Voiture and his lieutenant Sarrazin bring romances and glosses to the battle; Saint-Amand, idylls; Maynard, epigrams; Colletet, madrigals; Conrart, the man of prudent silence, leads nothing at all." (DRUJON). Ex-libris ms. of Léo Larguier.
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