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240 - TABOUROT, Etienne, Lord of the Chords – The Bigarrures and T…
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TABOUROT, Etienne, Lord of the Chords – The Bigarrures and Touches of the Lord of the Chords. With the aphorisms of Sieur Gaulard and the Escraignes of Dijon. Latest edition, revised & greatly expanded. Rouen, Loys du Mesnil, 1628. 5 parts in 1 vol., small 12mo, *Les Bigarrures*: (12) unnumbered folios, 181 folios, The fourth part of *Les Bigarrures*: (4) unnumbered folios, 50 folios; *Les Touches*: 64 folios, poorly numbered; *Les Escraignes*: 59 folios (the last folio, bearing the printer’s mark, is missing), poorly numbered. 2 portraits of Tabourot aged 35, and of Gaulard after Nicolas Hoey. Numerous woodcut illustrations, including 26 medallions featuring rebuses; copy trimmed short, 18th-century fawn calfskin, plain decorated spine. TCH V, 834. ADAMS, RAWLES, SAUNDERS (French Books of Emblems) F. 555. Portrait of Tabourot and 26 medallions depicting rebuses, wood-engraved. As the title indicates, the work deals with all manner of subjects: the invention and usefulness of letters, rebuses from Picardy, double entendres, puns and other wordplay; anagrams, various techniques in the art of versification (backward verses, numerical verses, reported verses, lettered verses, acrostics, macaronic verses, etc.), shorthand abbreviations, and epitaphs. The second part of *Les Bigarrures* is more serious: it begins with a few useful tips for the education of children, followed by a chapter on changing one’s nickname, and another on peculiarities relating to French verse; it is here that the author explains the family motto from which he derived his pen name, ‘Seigneur des Accords’. The work concludes with a chapter on false sorcerers and their deceptions. Les Touches (P. Richer, 1585) is a collection of clichés presented in the form of epigrams. Les Apophtegmes ou contes facétieux du sieur Gaulard, gentilhomme de la Franche-Comté bourguignonne, were published in 1614 alongside Les Escraignes dijonnaises in P., by Jean Richer. By that time, the author had already been dead (1590) for several years. The facetious tales were much enjoyed for a long time. The ‘Escraignes’ are, literally, huts made of rammed earth, which the people of the towns or suburbs built to keep warmer during winter evenings; they would entertain themselves there by telling stories, generally of a rather risqué nature. Tabourot, who had no qualms about bawdiness and who, even in *Les Bigarrures*, had already demonstrated his taste for risqué humour, did not hesitate to describe in the crudest terms the folk tales in which the common people of his time revelled. *Les Escraignes* are invaluable as a record of the Burgundian spirit at the end of the 16th century. Even today, they continue to attract readers.
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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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