Poesies Diverses du R. Pere (Jean Antoine) du Cerceau, Tome II
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1760
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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.
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Chez les Frères Estienne
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