Licentious and satirical songs from the Recueil... - Lot 116 - Giquello

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Licentious and satirical songs from the Recueil... - Lot 116 - Giquello
Licentious and satirical songs from the Recueil de Maurepas. S.l.n.d. [18th century]. Manuscript in-4, 457 pages, calf, smooth spine (Binding of the time). Important and very rare manuscript collection of licentious songs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, taken from the famous Recueil de Maurepas. The songs depict characters from the nobility and the Court in a way that is as insolent as it is gravelly. The Recueil de Maurepas was composed around 1750 at the instigation of Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (1701-1781), Secretary of State for the Navy under Louis XV and then Minister of State under Louis XVI. It includes songs, epigrams and very free satirical verses. This collection is now kept at the BnF. Known in its time by a few copies, mostly fragmentary, it was printed for the first time in small numbers in 1865. The present manuscript was copied in the 18th century and bears in the margins, next to the songs, the names of the personalities who were mocked, sometimes accompanied by comments. An open hinge.
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