GAILLARD G.H. Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'E - Lot 11

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GAILLARD G.H. Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'E - Lot 11
GAILLARD G.H. Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l'Espagne, contenant l'histoire de la rivalité, 1° des Maisons de France et d'Aragon, 2° de France et d'Autriche....seconde édition augmentée d'une notice biographique et littéraire sur l'auteur par L.S. Augier. Paris, Duprat-Duverger, 1807, 8 volumes in 12. half calf of time, smooth backs, decorated with boxes framed with gilded roulettes and thread, red titles and tomaisons, gilded titles, bindings of times. 2nd edition - GAILLARD G.H. 1771-1806 He studied law but turned to a literary career and became an editor at the Mercure de France and the Journal des savants. His Essai de rhétorique à l'usage des demoiselles, which he published at the age of twenty and in which he wrote that the company of women "is absolutely necessary to polish the mind", was a great success and was often republished. He was also the author of many academic praises and the editor of the complete works of Pierre Laurent de Belloy, but it is as a historian that he remains known, mainly for the eleven volumes of his Histoire de la rivalité de la France et d'Angleterre, the first of which appeared in 1771. He is also the main author of the volumes of History of the Methodical Encyclopedia. He was a friend of Lamoignon de Malesherbes for almost 40 years and published his biography in 1805. He was elected member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1761 and member of the Académie française in 1771 (Wikipedia) A very good copy in good condition, and well bound of this rare work.
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