Rhetorica, 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.

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Rhetorica, 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.

Bound volume containing manuscript, in a contemporary hand, of a course on rhetoric taught by Porée at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, where Voltaire was a student 1704-1711.

1 v. (169, 63, [2], [4], [2] p., [3] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 24 cm.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Voltaire, 1694-1778

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French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to René Hérault, Lieutenant-general of the police in Paris, 1729 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872418 From the description of Autograph letter, dated : [n.p., Ferney?, n.d., ca. 1766?], to Gabriel Crammer, [n.d., ca. 1766?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873849 Voltaire, playwright. William F. Fleming, translator. Tom Fontana, adaptor. From the description of Catil...

Collège Louis-le-Grand (Paris, France)

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Bonnart, Henri, 1642?-1711

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Vallet, Jérôme, 1667-ca. 1722,

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Robert, fl. 1715,

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Porée, Charles, 1675-1741

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French Jesuit rhetorician and dramatist; born Vendes (Calvados), Sept. 4, 1675; died Paris, Jan. 11, 1741; named professor of rhetoric at Louis-le-Grand in 1708 and continued to teach there until his death. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, VI, col. 1021-1033. Voltaire studied rhetoric under Porée in 1709-1710, and remained in contact with him long afterward. "Son plus grand mérite fut de faire aimer les lettres et la vertu à ses disciples"--Voltaire, in his catalog of writers ...