DESHOULIÈRES, Antoinette Du Ligier de La Garde, dame - Poësi - Lot 248

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DESHOULIÈRES, Antoinette Du Ligier de La Garde, dame - Poësi - Lot 248
DESHOULIÈRES, Antoinette Du Ligier de La Garde, dame - Poësies. Paris, vve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1688. In-8, portrait added, (2) ff. (title and one blank f.), 220 pp. and (6) ff. in midnight blue morocco, triple gilt thread on boards, ornate ribbed spine, interior serrations, gilt tr. (HARDY-MESNIL ?). TCH II, 807. LE PETIT 426. LACHÈVRE, Le Libertinage au XVIIe siècle (Disciples et successeurs de Théophile de Viau) 115. First edition. Antoinette Deshoulières (1638-1694), was a friend of Fléchier, Benserade, the Duc de Nevers, Thomas Corneille, Quinault, Charpentier; hostile to Racine, she took an active part in the "Phèdre quarrel"; she was one of the muses of the camp des Modernes. Until her conversion in the last years of her life, Mme Deshoulières embodied a particular aspect of 17th-century libertinism. Her work is above all critical of society - she sees in it only the triumph of money and ambition. The solid training she had received, and her knowledge of the philosophies of Descartes and Gassendi, enabled her to express in some of her plays her sense of the flow of things, the weaknesses of our reason, the waywardness of passion (See Dictionnaire des Littératures, Bordas I, 627; A. Adam, Hist. de la littérature française, V, 303)
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