Title: Receuil poétique des tragédies, poèmes, couplets, bouts-rimés et chansons, improvisés en Suisse Par M. Eugène de Pradel, Membre de plusieurs Académies, précédé d’une notice biographique et d’un portrait de l’auteur [...]
Description: <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;"><b>Full title:</b> Receuil poétique des tragédies, poèmes, couplets, bouts-rimés et chansons, improvisés en Suisse Par M. Eugène de Pradel, Membre de plusieurs Académies, précédé d’une notice biographique et d’un portrait de l’auteur, avec un fac-similé de son écriture.</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;"><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;"> 8vo. pp. xv, [1] (blank), f. [1], pp. 191, [1]. Original printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of the author, the French poet Eugène de Pradel (1787?-1857).</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;"><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;">First edition, including ‘the first French dramatization of the story’ of the daughter of a leader of an Helvetian uprising against the Romans, who died soon after her attempt to save her father’s life. Julia Alpinula’s story was in fact a humanist hoax based on a fabricated epitaph by Paulus Merula. See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 8, and note.

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