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Description
[LITERATURE]
BALZAC, Jean-Louis, Guez de (1597–1654):
Le Barbon
Paris. Sold at the Palais, 1658.
In 18°. Full vellum binding, ivory in colour. 6 unnumbered pages. 64 pages.
An edition unknown to the B. N. F., which lists the first edition of 1648 and the reprint of 1664. No edition is listed between these two dates.
This fictionalised account is in fact a polemical work by Balzac, who, under the guise of Barbon, attacks two of his adversaries: François de Harlay, Archbishop of Rouen, and the philologist Guyet.
Another copy of this same edition is included.
See original version (French)
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ID: 89135374
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