License to Print in the Name of the King
"To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm...
28 August, 2023
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Books of the Week — Elements d’Astronomie and Tables astronomique du Soleil, de la lune, des…
"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...
21 December, 2020
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Banned! — Persian Letters
"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...
24 September, 2019
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Book of the week — Traitte Des Diuertissemens, Inclinations, & Perfections Royales
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...
16 May, 2016
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