Author: MÉNAGE, Gilles.
Title: Menagiana ou les bons mots, les pensées critiques, historiques, morales & d'érudition de Monsieur Ménage, recueillies par ses amis. Seconde édition augmentée.
Description: Paris: Florentin & Pierre Delaulne, 1694. 12mo. [32], 396, [14]p. 14-page manuscript "clef" in an 18th-century hand bound in at end. Contemporary calf, worn at joints and corners, gold-tooled spine; 1 cm loss at foot of spine. Owner's name "Barré" at foot of title. ***** Despite his accomplishments as a philologist, Ménage was never elected to the Académie française, though he did become a member of the Accademia della Crusca. He was a frequenter of the Hôtel Rambouillet - the intellectual centre of Parisian society in the early 17th century - but he was quarrelsome by nature and had disputes with Bouhours, Cotin and others, and he was satirized as Vadius in Molière's Les femmes savantes. Menagiana is a collection of Ménage's sayings, observations, anecdotes and miscellanies, prepared by him and first published in 1693 after his death. Amongst Ménage's other works were his observations on the Aminta of Tasso; a translation, with commentary, of Diogenes Laertius, etymologies of the Italian language, and a collection of satires.

Keywords: French


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