[Confrérie des Conards]. Appologie faicte par le Grant Abbé - Lot 409

[Confrérie des Conards]. Appologie faicte par le Grant Abbé des Conardz sur les invectives Sagon, Marot, La Hueterie, pages, valetz, braquetz. Et cetera. Suivie de la Respõse à l'Abbé des Conardz de Rouen. Paris, Imprimerie de Panckoucke, 1854. In-12, 12 pp. Woodcut title. Followed by : La Première Lecon des matines ordinaires du Grand Abbé des Conardz de Rouen souverain monarque de l'ordre ; contre la respõse faicte par ung corneur à l'apologie dudict abbé. Paris, Imprimerie de P.-A. Bourdier & Cie, 1857. In-12, 24 pp. Woodcut title (same as above). Lemon morocco, finely decorated ribbed spine, title, date and place in dark blue marble, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, int. lace, gilt edges (Capé). "The following two opuscules, like the one entitled La première lecon des matines [...] which in 1848 we reprinted in eighteen copies, relate to the debate that took place between Cl. Marot, Sagon and La Hueterie, concerning their poetic productions. The order of these three pieces is as follows: first the Appologie, then the Response a labbe des Conardz, and finally La premiere Lecon des matines. This last booklet is undoubtedly the rarest of the three, as only the copy owned by M. le comte d'Auffay is known of the original edition, and it was not included in the collection entitled : Plusieurs traitez, par aucuns nouveaulx poetes, du different de Marot, Sagon et La Hueterie, and which had three editions (1537, 1538 and 1539), all in in-16 format. The first two have no place of printing; the third is dated Paris. Two other pieces on the same subject are Les Treues and Banquet d'honneur sur la paix faicte entre Marot , Sagon, etc., both of which feature the famous abbé des Conards. These two pieces, which we intend to publish shortly, have been taken from the 1539 edition, as have those we are publishing today". Warning for this edition. Les Conards - also spelled "Cosnards" in the past - is the name of a brotherhood and the carnival festival it organized in Rouen on fat days, from the 14th to the 17th century. Conard brotherhoods also existed in Évreux, from 1345 to 1420, in Cherbourg, and in Le Puy-en-Velay. The Rouen festival and brotherhood disappeared, victim of a ban promulgated by Cardinal de Richelieu. All these brotherhoods represented the equivalent in these towns of other brotherhoods such as the Badin and Turlupin in Paris, the Mau-gouverne in Poitiers, the Mère folle in Dijon, etc. (source Wikipedia). Ex-libris monogram M and double C interlaced. Bookplate J.M.