LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à - Lot 282

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LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à - Lot 282
LAUVERGNE, N. Le Roux, dame de - Recuiel de poesies, dédié à Madame la Marquise de Neuville. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1680. in-12, (2) ff. 160 pp. gilt vellum, boards framed with medallion in center and fleuron at corners, smooth spine decorated, gilt edges, edges a little faded. VIOLLET LE DUC 574. LACHÈVRE III, 14. first edition. Contains 85 pieces, including 66 by Madame de Lauvergne, two by the Comtesse de La Suze, and one attributed to Charles Perrault. Madame de Lauvergne's poems "are infinitely superior to those of the Desmarests, Coras, Le Laboureur and Dassoucy. The first piece, entitled Caprice d'un malade, is a model of style and good humor. This collection, which I believe to be extremely rare, consists of elegies, a poem about Adonis, madrigals and prose portraits, a kind of composition that was very fashionable at the time. There is sense, correctness and taste in all this''. (Viollet Le Duc). Contains one of the earliest Sapphic poems in French literature: Sonnet pour Mademoiselle Godefroy.
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