Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, pair et grand admiral de France, premier ministre du Conseil d'Etat sous le régne de Loüis XIII., roy de France & de Navarre, commandeur des ordres de Sa Majesté, evêque de Luçon, con-fondateur & bien-faiteur de la maison & société de Sorbonne.
Contributors: Du Chastelet, Paul Hay, marquis, b. ca. 1630.
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: Tassin Seurat; ink stamp of Chouteal Carncusier, Angers.
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: [24], 197, [3] p. (p. [21-24] at front and p. [2-3] at end blank); v. 2: 140, [2] p. (last leaf blank).
LC copy bound into 1 v.