Author: GIBERT, Balthasar.
Title: La rhetorique ou les regles de l'eloquence.
Description: Paris: chez la Veuve Savoye, 1766. 12mo. [2], 650, [7]p. Small marginal paper flaw in leaf F10 with minimal loss of a few letters. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, with some slight wear at corners, edges, and head and foot of spine; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; signature of A.F. Thomas Du Fossé on free front endpaper; 20th-century bookplate of John Geoffrey Aspin. Another issue is known with the imprint "Paris: Chez Barrois, Quai des Augustins, à la ville de Nevers, 1766". For 50 years Gibert taught rhetoric at the Collège de Mazarin in Paris. The foundation and substance of Gibert's teaching were drawn from classical texts - Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. His teaching stands at the opposite pole from innovative rhetorical thinking in France, whether produced in Latin by, for instance, Omer Talon, or more daringly in French by the Oratorian Bernard Lamy. The present text was first published in 1730. The owner of this copy, Augustin Francois Thomas du Fossé, is presumably the Unitarian and friend of Helen Maria Williams (cf. her "Letters written in France in the Summer of 1790, to a friend in England", London: 1790).

Keywords: rhetoric, French, antiquarian


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