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FLEURY (Abbot Claude). Les Devoirs des maitres et des domestiques. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery, Charles Clouzier, 1688. In-12, red morocco, gilt fillet, ribbed spine decorated with fillets, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Title, 308 pp. (1) f. of privilege. Very rare first edition of this treatise on the running of a noble house in the middle of the Grand Siècle. The first part gives the regulations imposed by the prince of Conti for his maîtres d'hôtels, coachmen, postilions, etc.; in the second part, one chapter is devoted to the intendants, another to the kitchen officers. Claude Fleury (1640-1723) was the tutor of the princes of Conti, of the count of Vermandois, natural son of Louis XIV, and of the grandsons of Louis XIV. He is the author of an important Histoire ecclésiastique (1691, 20 vols.). Modern handwritten bookplate on the title: Mertens. Binding rubbed.
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FLEURY (Abbot Claude). Les Devoirs des maitres et des domestiques. Paris, Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery, Charles Clouzier, 1688. In-12, red morocco, gilt fillet, ribbed spine decorated with fillets, gilt edges (Binding of the period). Title, 308 pp. (1) f. of privilege. Very rare first edition of this treatise on the running of a noble house in the middle of the Grand Siècle. The first part gives the regulations imposed by the prince of Conti for his maîtres d'hôtels, coachmen, postilions, etc.; in the second part, one chapter is devoted to the intendants, another to the kitchen officers. Claude Fleury (1640-1723) was the tutor of the princes of Conti, of the count of Vermandois, natural son of Louis XIV, and of the grandsons of Louis XIV. He is the author of an important Histoire ecclésiastique (1691, 20 vols.). Modern handwritten bookplate on the title: Mertens. Binding rubbed.
