Author: Mérard de Saint-Just, Anne-Jeanne-Félicité d'Ormoy,
Title: Bergeries et Opuscules
Description: En Arcadie, Et se trouve a Paris, chez Lamy..., 1780. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 124 x 72 mms., pp. [iv], 169 [ 170 blank], additional engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, contemporary French cal, gilt border on covers; top and base of spine chipped, corners slightly worn, binding a bit rubbed; some browning and foxing, engraved title-page slightly soiled, several contemporary autographs on verso of front free end-paper facing engraved title, with a name repeated on verso of engraved title-page First edition of this rare collection of works by the prolific French writer Anne d'Ormoy, (17651830). Comprising a series of eleven contes on pastoral and moral themes, the work is dedicated, fulsomely, to the author's husband, the writer SimonPierre Mérard de Saint Just, who was for many years Maîtred'Hôtel of the future Louis XIII, and whom she had married shortly before. The various tales celebrate the loves and intrigues of shepherds and shepherdesses, anticipating some of the themes of d'Ormoy's Mon Journal d'un an of 1788. Anne-Jeanne-Félicité Martin d'Ormoy (1755 - 18300was the daughter of Claude Martin d'Ormoy, president of the Pithiviers election (1755), and of Charlotte Chaumat. This was her first book with acloying dedication to her husband, the writer SimonPierre Mérard de Saint Just, who was for many years Maître d'Hôtel of the future Louis XIII. The text consists of eleven short stories or tales almost entirely on bucolic themes. Pickering and Chatto, catalogue 800 "Summer Miscellany"

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