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Edouard MENNECHET

Le Plutarque Français, vie des hommes et des femmes illustres de la France

chez Langlois et Leclercq, à Paris 1844-1847, 18x27cm, 6 volumes reliés.

Second edition posthumous part edited by T. Hadot and illustrated for each volume with a frontispiece designed by Charles Gleyre, representing two allegories including that of justice burning a monument of the great names in the history of France, Jeanne Arc to Napoleon. Book decorated with a full-length portrait for each historical figure mentioned. Each biography is written by a different author, with Charles Cayx, deputy of Paris, Geruzez, professor at the Sorbonne or Jules Quicherat, historian and archaeologist.
Binders half sheepskin red brick, back smooth decorated with jewels and golden framing nets and cold florets, contreplats and guards in the tank. Binders signed Antoine Chatelin tail back. head cap of Volume 3 missing part, tail cap of Volume 4 leveled, if not slightly rubbed caps, went back, scratching and discrete white spots on boards, cups and bit rubbed, rubbed corners.

The author, Edward Mennechet (1794-1845), was Louis XVIII drive and Charles X. The work appears in the years following the abdication of the latter, under the reign of ^{Louis-Philippe} I, and seeks to sit at the heart of a contemporary of socio-political crisis, a legitimacy in the history of France through those who have made "the glory of a country is not only in great things he executes, it is still in great men it produces. "
-The First volume on the Middle Ages and presents 31 portraits, from Clovis to Charles V.
-The Second volume, dedicated to the XIV, XV and XVI ^centuries features 30 biographies of Calvin Froissart.
-The Third volume, consisting of 29 articles, focuses on the sixteenth and seventeenth ^centuries, Philibert Delorme Mazarin.
-The Fourth book, entitled "Age of Louis XIV", extends from Pierre Corneille Fenelon in 32 portraits.
-The Fifth volume, corresponding to the eighteenth ^century, stands 29 portraits, Villars Beaumarchais.
-Finally, The sixth and last volume deals with the Revolution and the Empire in 31 texts, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Eugène de Beauharnais.

reference texts in a binding signed Antoine Chatelin, tracing over 1300 years (465 in 1824) a history of France through its large national figures.

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