HISTOIRE DE CAMOUFLET - sovereign potentate of the empire of - Lot 696

HISTOIRE DE CAMOUFLET - sovereign potentate of the empire of Equivopolis. Equivopolis (Paris, Jean-Baptiste Langlois), 1751. In-12, (6) ff, 84 pp, some russ, COHEN 487. HARTIG & SOBOUL 53. Carnivalesque joke playing on equivocation and nonsense (reference to the land of Cocagne). The camouflet is embodied in the main character of an apparently light-hearted tale, accumulating - rather laboriously - puns, while criticizing the effects of love and power. The title page features a vignette by Jean Guillaume Moitte after François-Thomas Mondon that sums up the theme. Two little lovers blow each other in the face, comically belying a quotation from the heroic ballet Zaïde. (Rel. à suite :) [VOISENON, Claude Henri de] - Histoire de la Félicité. Amsterdam, 1751, (3) ff. 136 pp. MMF 51.42. One of two eds. cited at this date. Aventures galantes. A father and mother each recount their lives to their son and daughter, to prove that true happiness lies in accepting one's own nature.