A Critical Edition of the Comical History of Francion 1655
Edition: First
Publisher: Chicago Spectrum Press
Published: July 31, 2005
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781583741153
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; General; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General
First sentence: This edition of The Comical History of Francion (1655) provides the reader with a version in modern English and compares it to the French original la vraie Histoire Comique de Francion (1633) by Charles Sorel.
Description: This is the first English translation of Charles Sorel's la vraie Histoire Comique de Francion (1633). The editor, Daniel A. Gajda, has modernized the 17th century font, provided the reader with a glossary of the English used, and compared it to the French original. He has also proved
who the anonymous author, "a gentleman of honor," is:  Major John Wright. He has also discovered that the 1661 edition is a remake of this original with only the title page changed: an in-folio trick. Also, there are multiple Royalist references (see page 13) inserted since translations were not yet suspected by the Cromwell government.
Notes: For a resume of the book see www.comicalhistoryoffrancion.blogspot.com.   We hope readers enjoy the peripaties of this French Don Juan, Francion, in his  English clothing. Many great libraries around the world now have copies, among them: the British Library, Cambrdige U., Paris III, Australian Nat. Lib., Cheng gung (TA), Harvard U., Yale U., Princeton U., Columbia, Cornell U., U. of Cal. (four campuses), So. Cal., Tulane, the New York Pub. Lib., Tulane, U. of Ill.
(Chicago), Mc Gill U. (CA), Simon Fraser (CA), Laval U. (CA) and many others (see World Cat).
Table of contents: label: Contents
title: Books 1-12
pagenum: 25-332