Lettres inédites de Michel de Montaigne et de quelques autres personnages, pour servir à l’histoire du XVIe siècle publiées par F. Feuillet de Conches (Extraits du troisième volume des Causeries d’un Curieux, actuellement sous presse.)
Publisher: Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Éditeur Typographie de Henri Plon, imprimeur de l’Empereur
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 338
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Large 8vo. pp. [8], 318. Copy no. 75 of 240 copies printed. 1949 handwritten on half-title page. Handwritten references on p. [320].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The letter at pp. 217–25, purportedly from Montaigne to Antoine du Prat, is the first publication of a forgery by Vrain-Denis Lucas (1818-1880).</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102966" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>