$125
BUSSY-RABUTIN
[205] pp.
Le Livre Club du Libraire
1962
Exemplaire 1207
8" x 5 1/2"
w/ moire silk boards
L'Histoire amoureuse des Gaules is a satirical historical pamphleteer novel on the mores of the court of France of the Grand Siècle, published in its original version by Éditions à la croix de Malte in 1665. It was written by Count Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, general of the royal armies of King Louis XIV, courtier of the court of France, philosopher, epistolary writer, pamphleteer, satirist and libertine and member of the French Academy.