ARGONNE, Bonaventure d' - Sentimens critiques sur les Caract - Lot 462

ARGONNE, Bonaventure d' - Sentimens critiques sur les Caractères de Monsieur de La Bruyère. Paris, Michel Brunet, 1701. In-12, (3) ff, 600 pp, (4) ff, pl. red morocco, triple gilt thread on covers, ornate ribbed spine, int. dent, gilt tr. (CHAMBOLLE-DURU). ROCHEBILIÈRE 659. A Carthusian known under the pseudonyms of Moncade or Vigneul-Marville, Bonaventure d'Argonne died in 1704 at the Chartreuse de Gaillon. His Mélanges de littérature (3 vols., 1701) is full of curious and hazardous anecdotes. Voltaire called him "the only Carthusian who cultivated literature. Contested criticism of La Bruyère's Caractères, for which he received a reply from P.-J. Brillon (1631-1710) Intendant General to the Duke of Maine, who had frequented La Bruyère. Stamp of Gustave Mouravit.