Antoine LE ROY
Le Momus françois, ou les aventures divertissantes du duc de Roquelaure
Chez Pierre Marteau|Cologne 1768|8.50 x 14.30 cm|2 parties reliées en un volume
New edition.
Copy with the arms of Armand Joseph Le Lièvre de la Grange stamped in blind, Marquis de Fourilles et de la Grange; azure a chevron or, accompanied in chief by two roses argent and in base an eagle displayed with lowered wings of the same.
Contemporary full blonde grained sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label. A tear with loss to the lower joint at head. Split to the lower joint at tail.
Gaston-Jean-Baptiste de Roquelaure, from an illustrious Gascon family, field marshal to the king, wounded at the siege of Bordeaux, saw his estate of Roquelaure elevated to a duchy. He was short and ugly and said of himself: "I have been considered very ugly: nothing obliges me to agree with everyone." King Louis XIV held him in high esteem, he was one of his favorites, and one day when the Duchess of Burgundy criticized him, he replied: "I find him one of the most handsome men in the Kingdom because he is one of the bravest." His witticisms and pranks remained famous, but he often went too far, and Louis XIV banished him from court for a time. The novel mocks the Duke's ugliness and accumulates the Duke's jests and adventures at court in a picaresque form and a narrative of great humor. By Antoine Le Roy according to Barbier.
Copy with the arms of Armand Joseph Le Lièvre de la Grange stamped in blind, Marquis de Fourilles et de la Grange; azure a chevron or, accompanied in chief by two roses argent and in base an eagle displayed with lowered wings of the same.
Contemporary full blonde grained sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title-label. A tear with loss to the lower joint at head. Split to the lower joint at tail.
Gaston-Jean-Baptiste de Roquelaure, from an illustrious Gascon family, field marshal to the king, wounded at the siege of Bordeaux, saw his estate of Roquelaure elevated to a duchy. He was short and ugly and said of himself: "I have been considered very ugly: nothing obliges me to agree with everyone." King Louis XIV held him in high esteem, he was one of his favorites, and one day when the Duchess of Burgundy criticized him, he replied: "I find him one of the most handsome men in the Kingdom because he is one of the bravest." His witticisms and pranks remained famous, but he often went too far, and Louis XIV banished him from court for a time. The novel mocks the Duke's ugliness and accumulates the Duke's jests and adventures at court in a picaresque form and a narrative of great humor. By Antoine Le Roy according to Barbier.
€400