[THE KING (Antony)]. Le Portrait et les Aventures divertissa - Lot 261

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[THE KING (Antony)]. Le Portrait et les Aventures divertissa - Lot 261
[THE KING (Antony)]. Le Portrait et les Aventures divertissantes du Duc de Roquelaure, according to the memoirs that the author found in the Cabinet of the Marshal d'H... Lille, Veuve Pillot, sd [c. 1799]. In-12 of 71-[1] pp. Half black cloth, smooth spine, gilt title (modern binding). Son of Marshal Antoine de Roquelaure, close to Henri IV, Gaston-Jean-Baptiste marquis, then duke of Roquelaure (1617-1676), nicknamed the ugliest man in France, was one of the bravest and most spiritual gentlemen of his time. However, Saint-Simon portrays him as a jester and a joker by profession. A volume of flat buffooneries, Aventures divertissantes du duc de Roquelaure, was published (Cologne, 1727), a compilation of allegedly good words and adventures, which are rightly or wrongly attributed to him. (Barber III, 328 for the 1781 edition).
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