{"title":"Pierre Fromageot","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"annales-du-regne-de-marie-therese-imperatrice-douairere-reine-de-hongrie-de-boheme-archiduchesse-d-autriche-c-c-c-dediee-a-la-reine","title":"Annales du règne de Marie-Thérese, impératrice douairere, Reine de Hongrie de Bohême, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, \u0026c. \u0026c. \u0026c. dédiée à la Reine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROMAGEOT (abbé), Pierre. Annales du règne de Marie-Thérese, impératrice douairere, Reine de Hongrie \u0026 de Bohême, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, \u0026c. \u0026c. \u0026c. dédiée à la Reine.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis: Chez Prault fils, Chez l'Auteur, 1775.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo (199 x 131 mm). (4) ff., 337 pp., (1) f.\u003cbr\u003eFull glazed calf, triple gilt fillet border to covers, spine with raised bands, fillets and gilt tools to compartments, title on brown morocco lettering-piece, fillet to the edges, gilt edges (contemporary binding).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, dedicated to Marie-Antoinette, of the eulogy which abbé Pierre Fromageot (1738-1794) devoted, during the lifetime of his sovereign herself, to Marie-Thérèse of Austria.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work is as much a political as a literary object. Published five years after the marriage that sealed the Franco-Austrian alliance and one year after the accession of Louis XVI, it offers the young Queen of France an edifying portrait of her mother, and places at the head of the dedication the medallion portraits of Marie-Antoinette and her brother Joseph II, as if to inscribe the new queen within a sovereign lineage rather than within a foreign marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFromageot was no familiar figure at court: born in Beaune, tonsured in the diocese of Autun, he was tutor to a natural daughter of the comte de La Marche, and composed for her a Cours d'études des jeunes demoiselles, eight volumes of which appeared between 1772 and 1775, already illustrated by Moreau le jeune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA copy complete with the portrait-frontispiece, the two medallions and the four plates.\u003cbr\u003eSome wear to the binding, and a few instances of foxing; a good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCohen, 412-413.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59021584859461,"sku":"0967","price":200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/0967-fromageot-01.jpg?v=1788193402"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/auteur-pierre-fromageot.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}