Poesies Diverses du R. Pere (Jean Antoine) du Cerceau, Tome II

Title

en_US Poesies Diverses du R. Pere (Jean Antoine) du Cerceau, Tome II

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Nouvelle edition

en_US Jean Antoine du Cerceau

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:00Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 1760

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1760

Abstract

en_US This is a small volume, about 3½ x 5½, containing 305 pages with a T of C at the end. Leather binding, marbled endpapers, and a place-marking ribbon. Jean Antoine du Cerceau (1670-1730) was a Jesuit priest, poet, and man of letters. French Wikipedia has these two curious notes about him: Il devint précepteur du prince de Conti et périt accidentellement, tué par son élève qui le frappa involontairement en maniant un fusil. Beware, teachers! This volume of du Cerceau's poetry contains fables, Contes, one Histoire, epigrams after Martial, other epigrams, two plays, and several texts for musical pieces. The ten fables are on 1-42. I tried three fables. Le Singe et le Chat (10) seems to have a monkey asking a wise cat why he has no friends. The cat answers that he pinches and bites and makes fun of people. Injure people and you set them against you. La Lionne et le Renard (11) seems to have the fox convincing the parent lion that her young son should no longer receive her milk but should rather be drinking the blood of victims. Flattering advice is always listened to, and the son soon becomes as silly as his parent. We hear every parent speak of the genius that is his or her son. (Is that word fan a form back then of faim?) In Fable IX, an aristocrat invites a carter to become a coachman. What dignity! Unfortunately, the coachmen soon wrecks the coach and overturns the master. Not in Bodemann or Shapiro.

Identifier

en_US 7349 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82619

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez les Frères Estienne

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1794.D68P6 1760 See all items with this value

en_US Jean Antoine du Cerceau See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole