Author: ANQUETIL (Louis-Pierre)
Title: Louis XIV, sa Cour et le Regent.
Description: A Paris, Chez Moutard..., 1789. FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes. 12mo, pp. lii, 336 [337 Errata, 338 blank]; viii, 406 [407 Errata, 408 blank]; viii, 430; viii, 415 [416 - 417 Approbation, 418 Errata], including half-title in each volume, recently rebound in fair half calf, marbled boards, spines blocked in gilt, original book label of the fourth Duke of Marlborough preserved on front paste-down end-paper of each volume. A very good set. Anquetil (1723 - 1806) became prior of the abbey of La Roee, in Anjou, in 1759 and soon after was appointed director of the college of Senlis, where he taught history and theology. He published this work just on the eve of the French Revolution (the Approbation is dated 30 September 1788) and was imprisoned during the Terror for his troubles.

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