LEPINE DE GRAINVILLE
Memoire sur la vie de M. de Pibrac, avec les pieces justificatives, ses lettres amoureuses et ses quatrains
Chez Marc-Michel Rey|à Amsterdam 1761|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary full glazed brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 attractive fleurons with stars at the corners. Beige morocco title label. Margins of the title page browned, as well as the second leaf. Upper margin of the blank leaf before the title torn and missing. Handsome copy, elegantly bound.
A much more complete biography than that published in Latin by Charles Pascal in 1584. Before becoming the author of the Quatrains, Pibrac was one of the most skillful negotiators of his time. Having returned to France after serving as ambassador to the Council of Trent and then to Poland, he was appointed Chancellor to the Queen of Navarre. It was then that he dared to write her a letter which was interpreted by Queen Margot as an impertinent declaration of love. This affair caused a great stir and Pibrac attempted to justify himself with skill. Contemporary authors took sides for or against him; the author of this biography provides evidence of Pibrac's passion. The work reproduces, following his biography, the love letters written to a mistress less resistant than the queen, as well as the text of the famous Quatrains, here restored to the original version, as the editors of 1897 and 1720 had transcribed them into modern French.
Contemporary full glazed brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 attractive fleurons with stars at the corners. Beige morocco title label. Margins of the title page browned, as well as the second leaf. Upper margin of the blank leaf before the title torn and missing. Handsome copy, elegantly bound.
A much more complete biography than that published in Latin by Charles Pascal in 1584. Before becoming the author of the Quatrains, Pibrac was one of the most skillful negotiators of his time. Having returned to France after serving as ambassador to the Council of Trent and then to Poland, he was appointed Chancellor to the Queen of Navarre. It was then that he dared to write her a letter which was interpreted by Queen Margot as an impertinent declaration of love. This affair caused a great stir and Pibrac attempted to justify himself with skill. Contemporary authors took sides for or against him; the author of this biography provides evidence of Pibrac's passion. The work reproduces, following his biography, the love letters written to a mistress less resistant than the queen, as well as the text of the famous Quatrains, here restored to the original version, as the editors of 1897 and 1720 had transcribed them into modern French.
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