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263 - [ANONYMOUS SATIRE]. The Count and Countess du Bouchage.
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Estimate €60 - €80
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[ANONYMOUS SATIRE]. The Count and Countess du Bouchage. A wedding song. No place, no publisher, no date (c. 1660) In-8 (22 x 17 cm), Bradel style, olive-coloured half-percale, smooth spine. Modern binding. 21 pp. Yellowed interior, foxing. Handwritten note in the margin of the dedicatory epistle (Grenoble, 22 April 1663 or 65). Provenance: ex-libris of the great Dauphiné bibliophile, Paul Couturier de Royas (1853–1934) First edition. Anonymous work. A veiled satire – presented in the form of an epithalamium (a lyric poem celebrating a marriage) – directed against François de Gratet (1634–1698), Counsellor to the King at the Parliament of Grenoble, and his wife Dame Philippa du Michal (Count and Countess of Bouchage).
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Auction time 11/02/2026 at 2:00 PM
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