Dialogue du royaume : auquel est discouru des vices & vertus des roys, & de leurs establissement : de l'estat de la monarchie & republique, & de leurs changemens : du deuoir & obligation du roy vers Dieu & le peuple : & des iustes causes qui peuuent esmouuoir le peuple à s'esleuer & s'opposer à la tyrannie & iniustice du roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Subjects (All):

Monarchy.

France--Kings and rulers.

France.

Kings and rulers.

France--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

France--History--Henry III, 1574-1589.

History.

Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589.

Henry.

Genre:

Courtesy books.

Physical Description:

142, that is, 140 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Dialogve dv royavme

Fingerprint:

r,me lea- eton mege (3) 1589 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Didier Millot ..., MDLXXXIX [1589]

Notes:

Signatures: A-S⁴ (final two leaves blank).

"Fin du premier liure: attendant le deuxiesme"--p. [140]. No more published?

Errors in pagination: pages 37-39 misnumbered as 36-38; p. 89-140 misnumbered as 91-142.

Woodcut title vignette; initial on p. 3.

Printed marginalia.

Written shortly after the murder of the Duke of Guise and his brother, the cardinal of Lorraine in December, 1588. The work is apparently by a supporter of the house of Guise and the Holy League.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; all edges speckled brown.

Cited in:

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 134

Hauser, H. Sources de l'histoire de France, XVIe siècle, 2565

Kelso, R. English gentleman, 277

OCLC:

82903256