The Eloquence of Poets, collection of examples
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eBay Item Number: 173138900430, ‘L’abbé Millot, précepteur du Dauphin’
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The Eloquence of Poets, collection of examples
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A collection of extracts taken from French poets, compiled by Claude-François-Xavier Millot for the education of the Dauphin.
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Extracts within the collection include: Voltaire (Merope, Zaire, Alzire, Rome saved, Orestes, Sémiramis), Racine (Andromaque, Britannicus, Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridates), Corneille (Le Cid, Horace, Polyeucte, Rodogune, Pulchérie), Gresset (Édouard III) , Chateaubrun (Philoctetes), etc., with some comments in the margins: “Noble despair, Tyranny, Cruel politics, Maternal tenderness”, etc.
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76 pp.
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A leaflet of certificates of authenticity has been added to the flyleaf by Guillaume, ‘neveu de l’abbé Millot’, and the Marquis de Sainte-Croix. The endorsement reads: ‘ce manuscrit était des leçons d’éloquence pour le Dauphin dont les cahiers ont été conservés’.
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c.1780
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Placed for sale at auction by Emmanuel Lorient in 2024, with an asking price of €750.00.
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