Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, pair et grand amiral [sic] de France, premier ministre du Conseil d'Etat sous le régne de Loüis XIII., roi de France & de Navarre, commandeur des ordres de Sa Majesté, evêque de Lusson, con-fondateur & bien-faiteur de la maison & société de Sorbonne.
Contributors: Du Chastelet, Paul Hay, marquis, b. ca. 1630.; Toinet, Raymond, b. 1843, former owner.
Publisher: Chez Henry Desbordes ...
Published: 1688
Place of publication: A Amsterdam
Language: fre
Subjects: Political science -- Early works to 1800.; Church and state -- France -- Early works to 1800.; France -- Politics and government -- 1610-1643.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate: Raimundi Toinet; previously belonged to Amelot de La Houssaye (cf. Toinet's note, mounted on rear pastedown), and has his extensive ms. notes.
Authenticity formerly questioned. Cf. Delavaud, Quelques collaborateurs de Richelieu (in Soc. de l'hist. de France, Rapports et notices sur l'édition des Mémoires du cardinal de Richelieu, t.2, p. 257-269).
Ascribed also to Paul Hay, marquis du Chastelet, whose "Traité de la politique de France" was issued also under title : Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu ... 3. ptie., indépendente des deux premières, Amsterdam, 1669. Cf. Quérard, (1836) t.8, p. 33, and BN.
Vol. 1: [22], 282, [2] p. (last leaf blank); v. 2: 192 p.
LC copy bound into 1 v.