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Criticism impossible to publish in France

GAZON D'OURXIGNÉ, Sébastien- Marie-Mathurin.
Essai historique et philosophique sur les principaux ridicules des differentes nations. Suivi de quelques poesies nouvelles. Par M. G... Dourx...





Amsterdam (= Paris?), Chez Rey, 1766. 2 parts in one volume. 12o. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt & ribbed spine with black title label lettered in gold, central gilt arms of M.J. Diodati, dark green sprinkled edges. (4), 152; (2), 80 p.

First and only edition of a satirical and philosophical work on the virtues and above all vices of the various peoples of the world by the literary critic Sébastien-Marie-Mathurin Gazon D'Ourxigné (ca. 1710-1784). As a satirical work that containing hidden criticism on the French society, and written during the Ancien Régime, it was necessary to published it with a fictitious imprint (Amsterdam). Among the peoples described are the Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Romans, Mohammedans, the peoples of East India, America, China, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, England and France.
The second part contains four poems based on, and translated from the Heroides of Ovidius: the 'epitres' of Dido to Aeneas, Phillis to Démophon, Penelope to Ulisses, ana Ariane to Theseus (pp. 1-35); furthermore an imitation of the first letter of Heloise to Abélard; Daphne, a poem from the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses; the romance Angélique & Médor, and some minor poems. The work closes with five original poems: 'La vengeance de l'Amour', 'La liberté ou la parfaite indifférence', 'Madrigal', 'Vers à M. Baron, médecin', and the well-known 'Epitre à M. de Voltaire'.

Good copy.- (Some minor foxing; with ballpoint on inside front cover '' Ex libris De Walsche. Bruxellis'' and in ink note on the author).
Nouv. Biogr. Gén, pp. 786-7.; J. Storm van Leeuwen, De achttiende-eeuwse Haagse Boekband; p. 430 plate B; IDEM, Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century, passim.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Anthropology  Bindings  Philosophy  Politics  Social Science 

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