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The dedication copy to the Duchesse d'Angoulême of a very rare educational work
GALLAND, P.J.Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.      Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, chez l'Auteur, 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemp. full-grained green morocco, spines gilt, with richly gilt borders on sides and the large gilt crowned coat- of-arms of the Duchesse d'Angoulême (double French Royal arms, each with three fleur-de-lis) in centre, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., pink silk endpapers. With 3 titles set within typographical borders, large folding engraved map of France in 1816 by Hérisson, large folding synoptical table of French grammar, numerous arithmetical sums and figures in text, and astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 full-page engraved plates. (4), 515, (1); 552, (2); 492, (2) pp. Very rare first edition of a compendious educational work intended for girls, on all titles dedicated to the Duchess of Angoulême, and here present in the Duchess's own copy, beautifully bound in Royal armorial green morocco. Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France (1778-1851) was the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. As the eldest daughter of the king, she was given the traditional honorific Madame Royale at birth. She married her cousin, Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the eldest son of the future Charles X. Once married, she assumed her husband's title and was known as the Duchesse d'Angoulême. She became the Dauphine of France upon the accession of her father-in-law to the throne of France in 1824, and was Queen of France for twenty minutes, in 1830, between the time her father-in-law signed the instrument of abdication and the time her husband, reluctantly, signed the same document, twenty minutes later. The book contains lessons in all subjects girls of good family should be taught. The first volume contains courses in French grammar and syntax, first a course for young children and then a separate course for the older girls, followed by a basic course in Rhetorics. The second volume teaches arithmetic and geography in single, extensive courses. And the third and last volume teaches history and mythology, again divided into a course for the younger and for the older girls, both taught like a catechism in questions and answers for the children to learn by heart. P.J. Galland was, according to the title-pages, director of a private school for girls. And his wife, according to the preface 'Aux Mères de Famille', directed a primary school for girls in the rue Popincourt, no. 60 at Paris, founded by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, where children were taught religion, morals and domestic economy. A primer for the little girls of this school (also rare) was extracted from the present encyclopaedic school book and published at Paris in 1817, starting with an A B C reading and writing course, and ending with courses in singing and drawing. A second edition appeared in 1826 in 6 vols. The work is signed opposite the title page of the first vo. by the book's compiler P J Galland. The publisher's stamped signature is found alongside Galland's as a guarantee of the book's authenticity. Magnificent copy with the Royal coat of arms of Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême.
Not in Gumuchian; Quérard III, p. 245.
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