Barnabé Farmian de ROZOI
Henri IV, drame lyrique en trois actes
Chez Vente|à Paris 1774|13 x 20 cm|relié
First edition.
Illustrated with a frontispiece title drawn by Gazard and engraved by Patas, and three engravings by Larrieu, engraved by the same.
Mid-19th century half red sheep binding. Smooth spine with fillets. Fine copy.
Barnabé Farmian Durosy or de Rozoi (1745-1792) was a journalist and man of letters from Toulouse, at once playwright, poet, novelist, historian and essayist. Founder and editor of a royalist daily newspaper in 1789, he was the first journalist to die by guillotine under the Terror. Henri IV ou la Bataille d'Ivry was deemed worthy of some twenty performances in Paris, Versailles, Toulouse and Brussels between 1774 and 1795. Antoine Rivarol seems to have been the only one to show enthusiasm for his lyrical work. It was necessary, wrote the author of Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française in 1788, for "poetic youth" to forget "the Voltaires, the Racines and the Corneilles" and take as model the one whose name "flies from mouth to mouth on the wing of vaudeville."
Illustrated with a frontispiece title drawn by Gazard and engraved by Patas, and three engravings by Larrieu, engraved by the same.
Mid-19th century half red sheep binding. Smooth spine with fillets. Fine copy.
Barnabé Farmian Durosy or de Rozoi (1745-1792) was a journalist and man of letters from Toulouse, at once playwright, poet, novelist, historian and essayist. Founder and editor of a royalist daily newspaper in 1789, he was the first journalist to die by guillotine under the Terror. Henri IV ou la Bataille d'Ivry was deemed worthy of some twenty performances in Paris, Versailles, Toulouse and Brussels between 1774 and 1795. Antoine Rivarol seems to have been the only one to show enthusiasm for his lyrical work. It was necessary, wrote the author of Discours sur l'universalité de la langue française in 1788, for "poetic youth" to forget "the Voltaires, the Racines and the Corneilles" and take as model the one whose name "flies from mouth to mouth on the wing of vaudeville."
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