Recueil de chansons annecdottes de la cour, [circa 1745-1759].

19 v.

French

Purchased from Moirandat on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2006.

This material is open for research.

Manuscript fair copy, in several unidentified hands, of texts for French satirical political songs, most with music, 1600-1745, copied apparently circa 1745. Subjects include courts and courtiers of Henry IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV; the Fronde; and other political events of the 17th-18th centuries. The last volume contains a collection of epigrams, 1758-1759 and undated, some attributed to Voltaire. Each of 19 volumes contains a subject index.

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September 08, 2014

Recueil de chansons annecdottes de la cour. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Recueil de chansons annecdottes de la cour. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.