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All seventeenth-century creators, be they writers, artists, or architects, drew inspiration from the Aeneid, whether they acknowledge their debt to Virgil or not. ‘Heirs’ openly claim their Virgilan ancestry, ‘prodigal sons’ recognize it but seek new...
Sources, the writing process, the author as editor, editorial policies, distribution, as well as how books were received by the public are all central concerns of these approximately 50 articles by the biographer and editor of Ronsard and Montaigne...
In 1851, the Parisian bookseller Balthazar Bance and the architect Victor Calliat co-founded the Encyclopédie d’architecture, a journal that would spread the ideas of Viollet-le-Duc until 1892. The history of the journal is first and foremost the...
«Le livre et ses secrets» combines articles written by Jean-François Gilmont over the past thirty years on the history of the book and of reading, sixteenth-century bibliographies, typographical production, as well as book reviews. A bibliography of...
This Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France (1470-1870) seeks to promote further research in the role and participation of women in the principle tasks of bookmaking : printing, bookselling, bookbinding. 1470 marks the beginning of printing in...
The state of the Royal finances continued to deteriorate and every year a new deficit had to be added to all the previous ones. Calonne, in charge of finance, thought that a land tax would be an effective remedy. The King summoned the representatives...
The present catalogue records all the books placed on the Roman Index from 1600 until its disappearance in 1966. The catalogue offers succinct biographical information on approximately 3’000 authors as well as a brief description and the location of...
Part IV, tome III ranges from La Gessée to Malherbe via Jean and Jacques de La Taille, Michel de L’Hospital and Olivier Magny, with notably an important biographical note on Malherbe and a detailed description of the first collective edition (1630) of...
The Enlightenment was a time of fundamental change in the world of books. As early as 1760-1770, a “second revolution of the book” occured, strongly linked to political and industrial revolutions. This pivotal era has long been scrutinized by...