OGER-BLANCHET
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GIRAC, Paul Thomas de - Response du Sr.
See original version (French)
504
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GIRAC, Paul Thomas de - Response du Sr.
See original version (French)
Estimate €250
Voluntary lot
Description
GIRAC, Paul Thomas de - Response du Sr. de Girac à la Défense des Oeuvres de M. de Voiture faite par M. Costar. Avec quelques remarques sur ses entretiens. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1655. In-4, front cover, (7) ff, 286 pp, (8) ff, (2) ff (privilege and errata), contemporary brown marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, top bonnet ref. renewed endpapers.
First edition. In 1653 appeared the Défense des ouvrages de Monsieur de Voiture by Costar, a commissioned work which should have established Balzac's supremacy over Voiture in matters of eloquence, but, on the contrary, Costar, pretending to please Balzac, actually praised Voiture. Balzac had died in 1654 after having asked his friend and fellow Angoulême writer Girac to defend him. There followed an exchange of replies and counter-replies between the two critics, no doubt fuelled by public interest. At the end is the Dissertation in Latin by Girac addressed to Balzac already published in 1652 and 1654 (Bound in the suite:) [COSTAR, Pierre] - Suite de la Défense des oeuvres de Mr de Voiture à Monsieur Ménage. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1655, (8) ff, 425 pp, (18) ff. first edition dedicated to Cardinal de Mazarin.
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