Histoire amoureuse de France, 1666 / par Bussy-Rabutin ; avec ses maximes d'amour.

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Histoire amoureuse de France, 1666 / par Bussy-Rabutin ; avec ses maximes d'amour.

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Manuscript on paper, in an unidientified cursive hand, of a version of Bussy-Rabutin's erotic and satirical fiction. This version gives characters the names of actual French courtiers, rather than pseudonyms, and may be a copy of a version printed clandestinely in 1666.

1 v. ( 316 p.) ; 20 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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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-...