Fables de Florian. Suivies de Son Théatre. Précédées d'un Jugment par la Harpe et d'Oberservations Littéraire par Sainte - Beuve. Vignettes par Grandville
by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794)
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Paris: Garnier Freres Text in French. Bound in quarter mottled calf with dark brown label and gilt lettering on the spine, marbled boards and endpapers, no date. Occasional illustrations by various artists. Binding is tight. Light foxing throughout. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 château of Florian, near Sauve September 13, 1794) was a French poet and romance writer. His mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when he was a child. His uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre, who remained his friend throughout his life. Having studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume he obtained from his patron a captains commission in a dragoon regiment. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he retired to Sceaux, but he was soon discovered and imprisoned; and though his imprisonment was short he died a few months later. Florian's first literary efforts were comedies; his verse epistle Voltaire et le serf du Mont Jura and an eclogue Ruth were crowned by the French Academy in 1782 and 1784 respectively. In 1782 also he produced a one-act prose comedy, Le Bon Ménage, and in the next year Galatie, a romantic tale in imitation of the Galatea of Cervantes. Other short tales and comedies followed, and in 1786 appeared Numa Pompilius, an undisguised imitation of Fénelon's Telémaque. In 1788 he became a member of the French Academy, and published Estelle, a pastoral of the same class as Galatie. Another romance, Gonzalve de Cordoue, preceded by an historical notice of the Moors, appeared in 1791, and his famous collection of Fables in 1802. Among his posthumous works are La Jeunesse de Florian, ou Mémoires d'un Jeune Espagnol (1807), and an abridgment (1809) of Don Quixote, which, though far from being a correct representation of the original, had great and merited success. Florian imitated Salomon Gessner, the Swiss idyllist, and his style has all the artificial delicacy and sentimentality of the Gessnerian school. Perhaps the nearest example of the class in English literature is afforded by John Wilson's (Christopher North's) Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life. Among the best of his fables are reckoned The Monkey showing the Magic Lantern, The Blind Man and the Paralytic, and The Monkeys and the Leopard. . Quarter Calf Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Fables de Florian. Suivies de Son Théatre. Précédées d'un Jugment par la Harpe et d'Oberservations Littéraire par Sainte - Beuve. Vignettes par Grandville
- Author
- Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-1794)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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