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302 - HENNISSART, Jean Félix d’] – Satires on bourgeois women who …
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HENNISSART, Jean Félix d’] – Satires on bourgeois women who call themselves ‘Madame’, distinguishing between those who are truly so and those who are so only by the whim of fortune, the eccentricities and vanity of the age. (Paris, Damien Beugnié, 1713). 8vo, (8) folios, 500 pp., 12 unsigned figures outside the text, title page rewritten, carmine Russian leather, thread-bound. gilt on the covers with a fleur-de-lis at the corners, ribbed spine, internal dentation, gilt edges. GAY III, 1076. ‘Very interesting satires on the customs of the time. See Bulletin du bibliophile, 1857, pp. 515–527.” COHEN 939. “Many copies have the lower part of the title page cut off, because the book was seized and the bookseller’s name was removed so that those copies that could be concealed might be sold.” The author, who had attempted to deceive the censor by submitting a watered-down text, was sent to the Bastille.
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About the sale The Jean Demaux Collection – Part 2
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Auction time 09/16/2026 at 2:00 PM
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