Les Philippiques et autres pieces avec des nottes historiques et critiques

Name:

La Grange-Chancel, Joseph de, 1677-1758

Timespan:

1715-1774

Date:

1758

Description:

A collection of 18th-century satirical poetry, with La Grange-Chancel's Philippiques, directed against Philippe, duc d'Orleans and regent for Louis XV, comprising the first half (f. 1r-30r). The remaining half consists of poems by unidentified authors from the 1770s with targets such as the chancellor René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou (f. 32r-40r) and Louis XV (f. 46r-47v).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Purchased, 1954.

Subject:

Orléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723; Maupeou, René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de, 1714-1792; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774; Politics and government

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); satires (literary genre); Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

73 leaves : paper; 182 x 106 mm bound to 187 x 113 mm

Geographic Subject:

France -- Politics and government -- 1715-1774; France

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 4r); the date is based on the copying of the Philippiques no earlier than 1758 and the remaining poems' dates after 1771.; Foliation: Paper, 73; [iv], 1-69; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch); leather splitting between spine and covers.; Origin: Written in France no sooner than the death of La Grange-Chancel in 1758 and after various events of the early 1770s.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 952