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Les Caractères

1696

NINTH ORIGINAL EDITION with 117 handwritten keys.

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NINTH FIRST EDITION.

It is the last revised and corrected edition by the author, who died just before publication, making this text the definitive state of the art. Characters.

The margins of this copy contain 117 handwritten annotations from the period, corresponding to the keys revealing the names of the models in the Characters. Opposite the famous character starting with : "How many gifts from heaven are needed to reign well..."and later titled The SovereignThe Le Roy key corresponds to Louis XIV.

A charming copy, elegantly bound in full red chagrin.

Paris,Etienne Michallet,1696.In-12, Bound,16 ff, 52 pp , 662 pp, xliv pp, 3 ff.

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Jean de La Bruyère

(born in Paris on 16 August 16451 and died in Versailles on 11 May 1696)

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Theophraste

(Lesbos, 371 B.C. - Athens, 288 B.C.)

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