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[MAINTENON, Françoise d'Aubigné, dite Madame de (1635-1719)]

Lot 26
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
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€ 1 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1317619
Lot 26 | [MAINTENON, Françoise d'Aubigné, dite Madame de (1635-1719)]
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€ 1 500 – 2 000
[MAINTENON, Françoise d'Aubigné, dite Madame de (1635-1719)]
Vie de Françoise d’Aubigné, veuve Scaron, marquise de Maintenon. [Vers 1765].

Manuscrit de format in-4 (251 x 186 mm), en français sur papier, de 253 pages dont le titre. Le titre se trouve dans un double encadrement à l'encre, et la première page de texte débute par un bandeau inachevé à l'encre. Portrait gravé de Madame Maintenon contrecollé sur le verso du feuillet de garde,
Reliure de l'époque : veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné gardes de papier marbré, tranches rouges (frottements, mors fendus, manques aux coiffes).
Provenance : ajouts et corrections d'une main différente sur les 47 premières pages, certains passages étant entièrement réécrits -- comte Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1832-1870 ; sur le titre, cachet à l'encre bleue aux armes) -- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov (1832-1909 ; ex-libris gravé sur le contreplat) -- docteur Lucien Graux (1878-1944 ; ex-libris, sa vente, VIIIe partie, 11-12 décembre 1958, Paris, hôtel Drouot, lot n°17).

Intéressante biographie de Madame de Maintenon, probablement rédigée un demi-siècle après sa mort. Certains titres d'ouvrages cités dans le texte (Le siècle de Louis XIV, par Voltaire, publié en 1751) permettent de dater approximativement la rédaction du manuscrit ; tout comme l'indication, p. 97, que le texte a été écrit 80 ans après la révocation de l'édit de Nantes - ce qui donnerait un terminus post quem en 1765. Ce texte est semble-t-il toujours inédit.

An extensive and apparently unpublished biography of Madame de Maintenon, written about fifty years after her passing.
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