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Aug 28, 2023 License to Print in the Name of the King

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"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...

Dec 21, 2020 Books of the Week — Elements d’Astronomie and Tables astronomique du Soleil, de la lune, des…

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"We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter, if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not, and that the Universe extends so in infinitum." -- Cyrano de Bergerac Elements d'astronomieJacques...

Sep 24, 2019 Banned! — Persian Letters

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"I here present the English Reader with the most diverting as well as instructive Book that France has produced these many Years. It is wrote with a Strength of Reasoning, a Freedom of Thought, and a Vein of just Humour, which that Nation was hardly...

May 16, 2016 Book of the week — Traitte Des Diuertissemens, Inclinations, & Perfections Royales

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TRAITTE DES DIUERTISSEMENS, INCLINATIONS, &… Potier de Morais (fl. 1644-1670) Paris: Pierre Moreau, 1644 Only edition DC133.32 P64 1644 Set in the exotic Orient, this novel on the education of a prince was written for and dedicated to six-year-old Louis XIV. Potier de Morais added pedagogy on the art of...

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