Author: SAINT FOIX (SAINT-FOIX), Germain-François Poullain de
Title: Oeuvres complettes De M. de Saint-Foix, Historiographe des Ordres du Roi.
Description: Paris: chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1778. 8vo. 6 vols. Vol. 1: [4], xvi, 594p. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Saint Foix; 1 engraved plate facing page 3. Vol. 2: [4], 600p. Engraved frontispiece. Vol. 3: [4], 479p. Vol. 4: [4], 462p. Vol. 5: [4], 472p. Vol. 6: [4], 524. [3]p. Titles and half-titles printed in red and black. Contemporary marbled calf, covers decorated with a triple-fillet gold border; gold-tooled spines; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers.green silk bookmarks. All six volumes show wear at edges, corners and at head and foot of spines. Contents in very good condition. ****** Saint Foix began life as a soldier but later settled in Paris where for twenty years he was much in demand as a playwright excelling in one-act comedies in prose. Encouraged by the success of Pandore at the Théâtre-Français, Saint Foix went on to further successes at the Théâtre-Italien: La veuve à la mode, Le philosophe dupe de l'amour, Le contraste de l'Amour et de l'Hymen. His libretto Deucalion et Pirrhe, ballet (1756) has recently attracted attention as 'a unique example of one kind of aristocratic art, a species in which extreme elevation of expression combines with virtually flawless employment of the unities.' - W.E. Rex, Sobering reflections on a forgotten French opera libretto, Eighteenth-century studies, vol.16, pp.389-400. Saint Foix also wrote several historical works including Essais historiques sur Paris and Histoire de l'Ordre de Saint-Esprit. Cioranescu 58274; Cohen-De Ricci 924.

Keywords: French, drama, antiquarian


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