FAUCHET (Claude)

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FAUCHET (Claude)
Collection of the origin of the French language and poetry, ryme and novels. Plus the names and summary of the works of CXXVII. poet François, living before the year M.CCC. Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1581. In-4, overlapping black morocco, diamond-shaped cold-striped rhombus-rectangle decoration, spine decorated with cold-striped fillets, gilt edges (modern binding). Renouard, Estienne, p. 183, no. 4. Original edition, decorated with a beautiful portrait of the author engraved in intaglio by Thomas de Leu. The work can be considered as the literary part of the will of some French historians of the time to reconstruct France's national past. Fauchet is considered by his biographers as the founder of the history of French literature. He gives here the first study on Rutebeuf, as well as literary notes on 127 French finds that would have more than likely disappeared from the history of French poetry without him. Handwritten ex-libris of the time on the title of a religious congregation, two ex-libris stamps including an unidentified Lyonnais from the end of the 19th century. From the Philippe Zoummeroff Library (1999, no. 9). Washed copy; the ink annotations of the time (marginalia) have mostly turned orange brown. Several passages underlined in the same way. Restored tear on last sheet
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