[LOUIS XIV]. Manuscript, *Nouveaus Portraitz et Caracteres d - Lot 492

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[LOUIS XIV]. Manuscript, *Nouveaus Portraitz et Caracteres d - Lot 492
[LOUIS XIV]. Manuscript, *Nouveaus Portraitz et Caracteres de la Famille Royalle*…, [late 17th century]; one small quarto volume of 244 pages, contemporary parchment binding with red edges. The full title is: New Portraits and Character Sketches of the Royal Family, Ministers of State, and the Principal Figures of the Court of France, Both Past and Present, with an Exact Estimate of the Crown’s Revenues. Supplemented with Portraits and Character Sketches of Several Officers of the Empire. And a Song about Several Figures of the Time. The manuscript corresponds to the book published clandestinely in 1706 under this title, with the fictitious address “in Ville-Franche at Paul Pinceau’s”; forgeries and copies circulated. The pagination of the manuscript ends after p. 61. Following a Preface and the Table of Contents, there are 69 portraits (I–LXIX): Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, the Dauphin, the late Duke of Orléans, the Dukes of Burgundy, of Anjou (Philip V), of Berry and of Orléans, the Prince of Condé, the Duke of Bourbon, the Prince of Conti, the Duke of Maine, the Count of Toulouse, the Duke of Vendôme and his brother the Grand Prior, the Cardinal of Bouillon, the Archbishop of Reims; the Dukes of Bouillon, Saint-Aignan, Aumont, Gesvres, La Trémouïlle, La Rochefoucauld, Noailles, Chevreuse, and Armagnac; the marshals of Duras, Lorges, Villeroy, Boufflers, Catinat, Rosen, Vauban, Harcourt, and Villars; Cardinal de Boufflers, Bossuet, and Fénelon; the Marquis de Beringhen; the dukes and peers: Uzès, Ventadour, Sully, Lesdiguières, Brissac, Chaulnes, Richelieu, Luxembourg, Estrées, Mazarin, de Vivonne, Foix-Randan, Coislin, Choiseul, La Ferté-Senneterre, Charost; Colbert, Pontchartrain, Turenne, Fouquet, the Prince of Conti, Cardinal Mazarin, etc. Next come the “Emperor’s General Officers”: Princes Charles of Lorraine, Louis of Baden, Louis of Neuburg, Eugene of Savoy, and de Commercy; the Elector of Bavaria, and the Count of Rabutin. The song is followed by “Remarks on the Revenues of France.”
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