Paris: l'Huillier, 1578.
Only edition of a kind of speculum principum comprised of instructive essays based on Plutrach's Lives, composed by the historian Bernard du Haillan. The author was a student of Dorat, and a friend of Boiastuau and Montaigne. In spite of a reportedly disagreeable personality and a tendency.....
Paris: Jean Bienné, 1574.
The only edition of an epic on the Passion in vers héroïque, by Michel Foucqué, vicar of Saint-Martin de Tours. Foucqué was clearly inspired by the great epics of the Matter of France, though with textual modernizations for a post-Ronsard readership. Foucqué's knowledge of New Testament.....
Geneva: Jean Crespin, 1560.
Only edition. Historian of French grammar and lexicography Odile Leclercq states unequivocally: Le premier dictionnaire, à notre connaissance, monolingue [est], le Dictionnaire en théologie, rédigé par un anonyme en 1560. Bilingual dictionaries preceded monolingual throughout Europe, as the former served a more essential and immediate function.....
First editions. Jacqueline D'Escoman, demoiselle d'honneur to Marie de' Medici at the court of Henri IV, had accused Henriette d'Entragues, the marquise de Verneuil, and Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, the duc d'Épernon, of conspiring to influence François Ravaillac to assassinate the king. Ravaillac, a gullible, lapsed Jesuit.....
Paris: Richard Breton, 1559.
First edition. It's not surprising that Abel Matthieu, in advocating a return to a more elegant and balanced French language, chose to have his argument printed by Richard Breton in Philippe Danfrie's civilité type, which itself was a celebration of the beauty of an earlier French.....