Commonplace book : [France], [16--].

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Commonplace book : [France], [16--].

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Manuscript commonplace book owned by Artus Le Miere des Savigny, written in several hands. Pages numbered 1-218 contain excerpts from "Histoire Amoreuse des France par Mr le Comte de Bussy Rabutin". Also present are "La ciel des beautez heroines de france: extraites d'un livre intituleĢ...par le Sr de St Gabriel...1657," excerpts from works of Cicero and Joachim Camerarius in Latin, and other notes in French. Accompanied by three French legal documents on vellum, dated 1635, 1637, and 1647.

1 v. (ca. 300 p.) ; 20 cm.

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Le Miere, Artus.

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Bussy, Roger de Rabutin, comte de, 1618-1693

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Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, (1618-1693) was a French courtier and Army officer well-known for composing satirical and libelous songs. He composed the Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules in 1660 during a banishment from court. The erotic fiction circulated widely in manuscript, and angered Louis XIV, who sent de Bussy to the Bastille for a year and then exiled him to his estates in Burgundy, where he died in 1693. From the description of Histoire amoureuse de France, 1666 / par Bussy-...