1786 Numa Pompilius 2nd King of Rome by Florian French
Similar Sale History
View More Items in Books
![[18th-century French red morocco binding]: DECORATIVE BINDING. [18th-century French red morocco binding]. Quarto. (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches). Gilt armorial stamped on covers, marbled endpapers. This beautiful red morocco binding, serving as a blot](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7533/205150/104410202_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1622217463)
Related Books
More Items in French Books
View More
![Marquis de Sade, 4 Stories, Mystified Magistrate, Peter Owen UK Ed. 1996: "The Mystified Magistrate: Four Stories" by Marquis de Sade, translated by Margaret Crosland; published by? Peter Owen, London, UK, 1996. Soft cover [wear: see photos]; 5.1/2" x 8.1/2"; 158 pages, a l](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/177862408_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
![Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac, 1940s, Neo-Romantic Play: "Cyrano De Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand, published by Books, Inc., New York & Boston, undated, [1940s-1950s]. World's Popular Classics series was published by Books Inc., New York, 1938-1960. No jacket](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6304/326876/177480495_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716298906)
Recommended Books, Magazines & Papers
View More
Item Details
Description
1786 Numa Pompilius 2nd King of Rome by Florian French Literature 2v Illustrated SET
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 – 1794) was a French poet and romance writer.
Pompilius (753–673 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. He was of Sabine origin, and many of Rome's most important religious and political institutions are attributed to him.
Item: #6251
Price: $299
Main author: Florian, (Jean-Pierre Claris de)
Title: . Numa Pompilius : second roi de Rome
Published: Paris, : Impr. de Didot jeune, 1786.
Language: French
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
Wear: wear as seen in photos
Binding: tight and secure leather binding
Pages: complete with all 240 + 269 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such
Illustrations: 13 beautiful engravings including frontispiece
Publisher: Paris, : Impr. de Didot jeune, 1786. / complete 2v set
Size: ~5in X 3.25in (13cm x 8.5cm)
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
Shipping:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Satisfaction Guarantee:
Customer satisfaction is our first priority. Notify us within 7 days of receiving your item and we will offer a full refund guarantee without reservation.
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794, Sceaux) was a French poet and romance writer.
Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Works
2.1 Selected works
3 Famous verses
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Life[edit]
His mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when he was a child. He was brought up by his grandfather and studied at St. Hippolyte. His uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at the château de Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre, who remained his friend throughout his life. Having studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume he obtained from his patron a captain's commission in the dragoon regiment of Penthièvre.
He left the army soon after and began to write comedies, and was elected to the Académie française in 1788. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he retired to Sceaux, but he was soon discovered and imprisoned; and though Robespierre's death spared him, he died a few months later still in prison.[1]
Works[edit]
To modern readers, Florian is chiefly known as the author of pretty fables well suited as reading for the young, but his contemporaries praised him also for his poetical and pastoral novels. Florian was very fond of Spain and its literature, doubtless owing to the influence of his Castilian mother, and both abridged and imitated the works of Cervantes.
Florian's first literary efforts were comedies; his verse epistle Voltaire et le serf du Mont Jura and an eclogue Ruth were crowned by the Académie française in 1782 and 1784 respectively. In 1782 also he produced a one-act prose comedy, Le Bon Ménage, and in the next year Galatie, a romantic tale in imitation of the Galatea of Cervantes. Other short tales and comedies followed, and in 1786 appeared Numa Pompilius, an undisguised imitation of Fénelon's Telémaque.
In 1788 he became a member of the Académie française, and published Estelle, a pastoral of the same class as Galatie. Another romance, Gonzalve de Cordoue, preceded by an historical notice of the Moors, appeared in 1791, and his famous collection of Fables in 1802. Among his posthumous works are La Jeunesse de Florian, ou Mémoires d'un Jeune Espagnol (1807), and an abridgment (1809) of Don Quixote, which, though far from being a correct representation of the original, had great and merited success.
Florian imitated Salomon Gessner, the Swiss idyllist, and his style has all the artificial delicacy and sentimentality of the Gessnerian school. Perhaps the nearest example of the class in English literature is afforded by John Wilson's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (written as Christopher North). Among the best of his fables are reckoned The Monkey showing the Magic Lantern, The Blind Man and the Paralytic, and The Monkeys and the Leopard.
Selected works[edit]
Fables[2]
The Blind man and the Paralytic
The Monkey and the Magic Lantern
The Monkeys and the Leopard
The Fable and the Truth
The Crocodile and the Sturgeon'
The Child and the Mirror
The Old Tree and the Gardener
The Nightingale and the Prince
The Two Travelers
Theatre
Les Deux Billets (1779)
Le Bon Ménage (1782)
Le Bon Père (1784)
Les Jumeaux de Bergame (1782)
Other
Pastorales
Variétés et contes en vers
Plaisir d'amour, a song
Mémoires d'un jeune Espagnol
6251
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 – 1794) was a French poet and romance writer.
Pompilius (753–673 BC) was the legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. He was of Sabine origin, and many of Rome's most important religious and political institutions are attributed to him.
Item: #6251
Price: $299
Main author: Florian, (Jean-Pierre Claris de)
Title: . Numa Pompilius : second roi de Rome
Published: Paris, : Impr. de Didot jeune, 1786.
Language: French
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
Wear: wear as seen in photos
Binding: tight and secure leather binding
Pages: complete with all 240 + 269 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such
Illustrations: 13 beautiful engravings including frontispiece
Publisher: Paris, : Impr. de Didot jeune, 1786. / complete 2v set
Size: ~5in X 3.25in (13cm x 8.5cm)
FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE
Shipping:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.
Satisfaction Guarantee:
Customer satisfaction is our first priority. Notify us within 7 days of receiving your item and we will offer a full refund guarantee without reservation.
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (March 6, 1755 château of Florian, near Sauve, Gard – September 13, 1794, Sceaux) was a French poet and romance writer.
Contents [hide]
1 Life
2 Works
2.1 Selected works
3 Famous verses
4 Bibliography
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External links
Life[edit]
His mother, a Spanish lady named Gilette de Salgues, died when he was a child. He was brought up by his grandfather and studied at St. Hippolyte. His uncle and guardian, the Marquis of Florian, who had married a niece of Voltaire, introduced him at the château de Ferney and in 1768 he became page at Anet in the household of the Duc de Penthièvre, who remained his friend throughout his life. Having studied for some time at the artillery school at Bapaume he obtained from his patron a captain's commission in the dragoon regiment of Penthièvre.
He left the army soon after and began to write comedies, and was elected to the Académie française in 1788. On the outbreak of the French Revolution he retired to Sceaux, but he was soon discovered and imprisoned; and though Robespierre's death spared him, he died a few months later still in prison.[1]
Works[edit]
To modern readers, Florian is chiefly known as the author of pretty fables well suited as reading for the young, but his contemporaries praised him also for his poetical and pastoral novels. Florian was very fond of Spain and its literature, doubtless owing to the influence of his Castilian mother, and both abridged and imitated the works of Cervantes.
Florian's first literary efforts were comedies; his verse epistle Voltaire et le serf du Mont Jura and an eclogue Ruth were crowned by the Académie française in 1782 and 1784 respectively. In 1782 also he produced a one-act prose comedy, Le Bon Ménage, and in the next year Galatie, a romantic tale in imitation of the Galatea of Cervantes. Other short tales and comedies followed, and in 1786 appeared Numa Pompilius, an undisguised imitation of Fénelon's Telémaque.
In 1788 he became a member of the Académie française, and published Estelle, a pastoral of the same class as Galatie. Another romance, Gonzalve de Cordoue, preceded by an historical notice of the Moors, appeared in 1791, and his famous collection of Fables in 1802. Among his posthumous works are La Jeunesse de Florian, ou Mémoires d'un Jeune Espagnol (1807), and an abridgment (1809) of Don Quixote, which, though far from being a correct representation of the original, had great and merited success.
Florian imitated Salomon Gessner, the Swiss idyllist, and his style has all the artificial delicacy and sentimentality of the Gessnerian school. Perhaps the nearest example of the class in English literature is afforded by John Wilson's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (written as Christopher North). Among the best of his fables are reckoned The Monkey showing the Magic Lantern, The Blind Man and the Paralytic, and The Monkeys and the Leopard.
Selected works[edit]
Fables[2]
The Blind man and the Paralytic
The Monkey and the Magic Lantern
The Monkeys and the Leopard
The Fable and the Truth
The Crocodile and the Sturgeon'
The Child and the Mirror
The Old Tree and the Gardener
The Nightingale and the Prince
The Two Travelers
Theatre
Les Deux Billets (1779)
Le Bon Ménage (1782)
Le Bon Père (1784)
Les Jumeaux de Bergame (1782)
Other
Pastorales
Variétés et contes en vers
Plaisir d'amour, a song
Mémoires d'un jeune Espagnol
6251
Condition
Excellent
Buyer's Premium
- 0%
1786 Numa Pompilius 2nd King of Rome by Florian French
Estimate $299 - $600
8 bidders are watching this item.
Shipping & Pickup Options
Item located in Columbia, MO, usOffers In-House Shipping
Payment
TOP