Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary / by C.A. Sainte-Beuve; translated by Katharine P. Wormeley ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, translator.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--Biography.

France.

French literature--17th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Authors, French.

Literature, French--17th century.

Local Subjects:

Literature, French--17th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Seligman, Eustace (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.2)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispieces, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904.

Contents:

v. 1. Cardinal de Richelieu. Duc de Rohan. Cardinal Mazarin. Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Duchesse de Longueville. Cardinal de Retz. Mademoiselle de l'Enclos. Tallemant des Réaux and Bussy-Rabutin. Abbé de Rancé. La Grande Mademoiselle. Comtesse de La Fayette. Duchesse d'Orléans. Louis XIV. Duchesse de La Vallière.

v. 2. History of the French academy. Corneille. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Molière. La Fontaine. Pascal. Madame de Sévigné. Bossuet. Boileau. Racine. Madame du Caylus. Fénelon. Comte Antoine Hamilton. The princesse of Ursins.

Notes:

"Taken from the 'Causeries du lundi, ' the 'Portraits de femmes, ' and the 'Portraits littéraires.'"--Translator's note.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.1 has photocopy of Portraits of the seventeenth century - Collation of Texts, from the Ungar reprint, (NY 1964) edited by Ruth Mulhauser, tipped in at end.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.2 has bookplate on front pastedown: "This book belongs to Eustace Seligman".

Other Format:

Online version: Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869. Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary.

OCLC:

248656