LELLERON (Bernard).

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LELLERON (Bernard).
Collect [sic] the Worms that have been composed for the Mande Prize of the noble Game of the Arquebuze Garden, which is to be played in Provins, on the 25th day of Aoust. Provins, Nicolas Menissel, 1686. In-8, bradel cartonnage, green title piece on the spine (modern binding). Original edition, very rare. A collection of verses by Bernard Lelleron (or Lélleron), a poet from Provins who was a lawyer at the Paris Parliament, composed for the great harquebusier game held in Provins in 1686. The festival of harquebusiers, in use from the Renaissance to the Revolution, brought together each year different companies of harquebusiers from France. It gave rise to a solemn mass, festivities and military games in which the shooting of the bird was the most remarkable. The latter consisted in shooting a wooden or tin bird, also called papegaud or papegeai, placed on a pole more than fifty feet high. The knight who succeeded in shooting it was proclaimed king of the company and was rewarded with gifts and privileges for a year (cf. Boquet-Liancourt, "Souvenirs de l'arquebuse de Provins" in Bulletin de la Société d'archéologie, sciences, lettres et arts de Seine-et-Marne, vol. 9, 1884, pp 297-305). In Provins, whose company was one of the oldest in France, this shooting of the bird took place on August 25, unlike other towns where it took place at Pentecost. The poems contained in the book are compliments, addressed to King Louis XIV, the local authorities and above all to the various harquebusier companies in France competing in 1686: among the most notable of them are those of Reims, Meaux, Soissons, Senlis, Paris, etc. The only known copy of this book, it seems. Our searches in the large computerized catalogues (CCFr, Worldcat and KVK) did not yield any results. A few stains.
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