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163 - LA MOTTE-AIGRON (Jacques de). Reply to Phyllarque.
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LA MOTTE-AIGRON (Jacques de). Reply to Phyllarque. Paris, Published at the author’s expense, 1628. In-4, red morocco, gilt fillet binding (contemporary binding). Title-frontispiece, 20 ff., 341 pp. First edition. A diatribe against Father Goulu, General of the Feuillants, concerning his dispute with Balzac and with La Motte-Aigron, author of a defence of Balzac. The preliminary leaves contain a long dedication in Latin to Abraham de La Motte-Aigron, the author’s father, who had been called an apothecary by Father Goulu. A warning and a sarcastic Latin poem in which Goulu is referred to as Pantophagus (the glutton). At the end, Mr de La Motte-Aigron’s Preface on Balzac’s works has been bound in. S.l., (1626). 18 pp. Cioranescu 39765 and 39764.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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