Charles Pinot Duclos 5 Vol Leather 1802 Oeuvres Diverses Acadmie Francaise

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Augmentee de plusieurs Memoires Curieux, Entrautres sur es Druides, sur l'Art Theatral hez les Romains et les Francais; sur les Epreuves appelee Jugemens de Dieu; sur l'Origine et las Revolutions des langues celtique et franaise, etc
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Charles Pinot Duclos

Leather. 8vo. N.L.M. Desessarts, Paris, France.  An X (1802). 5 volumes in 3. Engraved frontispiece prsent to the 1st volume. Text in French. New Edition.

Bound in 1/2 red leather with paper covered boards and gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (corners and extremities bumped and rubbed) No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

Augmented by several Curious Memories, Entrautres on the Druids, on Theatrical Art in the Romans and the French,; on the Trials called Judgments of God; on the Origin and Revolutions of the Celtic and French languages, etc.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:

Charles Pinot (or Pineau) Duclos (12 February 1704 – 26 March 1772) was a French author and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

His first serious publication was the History of Louis XI, which is dry and epigrammatical in style but displays considerable powers of research and impartiality. The reputation of Duclos as an author was confirmed by the publication of his Considérations sur les mœurs de ce siècle (1751), a work justly praised by La Harpe as containing a great deal of sound and ingenious reflection. It was translated into English and German. The Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du dix-huitième siècle, intended by the author as a sort of sequel to the preceding work, are much inferior in style and matter, and are, in reality, little better than a kind of romance. In consequence of his History of Louis XI, he was appointed historiographer of France, when that place became vacant on Voltaire's retirement to Prussia. His Secret Memoirs of the Reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV (for which he was able to utilize the Mémoires of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, suppressed in 1755), were not published until after the French Revolution.

A complete edition of the works of Duclos, including an unfinished autobiography, was published by Auger (1821). See also Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. ix.; René Kerviler, La Bretagne et l'Académie française du XVIIIe siècle (1889); L. Mandon, De la valeur historique des mémoires secrets de Duclos (1872).