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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD François VI, prince de Marcillac, duc de (1613-1680) écri
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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD François VI, prince de Marcillac, duc de (1613-1680) écrivain, auteur des Maximes | il participa à la Fronde
L.A.S. "laRochefoucauld", December 21 [1663, in COLBERT] | 1 page in-fol.
Very rare letter about the royal privilege granted for the Maximes.
... "Besides the advantage that I received from the grace that it rained on the King to make me, it is a great advantage for me to have had in this meeting particular marks of your kindness that I cannot prevent myself from professing to you that no one can ever feel them more truly than me, I am quite ashamed sir to be able to testify to you my gratitude only by an innutilating compliment, I will try with all possible care to give you other proofs of it....
[Copies of the Maxims were circulating in France in the entourage of Mme de Sablé. One of these copies passed through Holland and was published at the end of 1663 under the title Sentences and Maxims of Morality (The Hague, , 1664). To prevent any further clandestine publication of his work, La Rochefoucauld requested a privilege from the King. The privilege is dated January 14, 1664 and the first edition of Réflexions or Sentences et Maximes morales is completed for printing on the following October 27 (Barbin, 1665)].
L.A.S. "laRochefoucauld", December 21 [1663, in COLBERT] | 1 page in-fol.
Very rare letter about the royal privilege granted for the Maximes.
... "Besides the advantage that I received from the grace that it rained on the King to make me, it is a great advantage for me to have had in this meeting particular marks of your kindness that I cannot prevent myself from professing to you that no one can ever feel them more truly than me, I am quite ashamed sir to be able to testify to you my gratitude only by an innutilating compliment, I will try with all possible care to give you other proofs of it....
[Copies of the Maxims were circulating in France in the entourage of Mme de Sablé. One of these copies passed through Holland and was published at the end of 1663 under the title Sentences and Maxims of Morality (The Hague, , 1664). To prevent any further clandestine publication of his work, La Rochefoucauld requested a privilege from the King. The privilege is dated January 14, 1664 and the first edition of Réflexions or Sentences et Maximes morales is completed for printing on the following October 27 (Barbin, 1665)].