Paris, Jean Petit Pas, 1633<\/p>\n
15,5 : 9 cm. 435 pages with engraved title-vignette, 12 leaves index. Contemporary vellum.<\/p>\n
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Later, still very rare edition, attributed the work to Jacques Olivier, \u201cLicenci\u00e9 aux Lois en droit.\u201d The text is a late squawk of the \u201cQuerelle des femmes.\u201d \u201dPart accusation and part apology, the arguments use rhetoric that one assumed was long buried\u201d (Albistur & Armogathe). The passion of the author was nonetheless as captivating to a certain public as were the many lies already circulating about Marguerite of Valois, Queen of Navarre, a woman of letters and generous cultural patron, who had the means and courage to lead an independent life, sexual and otherwise, after her separation from Henri IV in 1585, and who remains one of the most slandered women of European history. Thus, like the tales of her debauchery, this work gained wide circulation. Gay\u2019s list of 17 later editions, from 1619 to 1666, is incomplete, as the book was reprinted within weeks of this first edition (another known 1617 edition is marked \u201c4th edition.\u201d) It inspired a spate of rebuttals and counter-defenses. An English translation appeared in 1662; and the titles of the chapters were borrowed for an unrelated German series of \u201cstudent\u2019s pseudo-philosophical talk, enigmas,\u201d etc., published in 1667 (cf. J. Hilton, Chronograms Continued, 1885, 160-161). OCLC locates only a handful of copies of this edition, including one copy in the US (Library of Congress, incomplete). Gay-Lemonnyer I: 69-70; Brunet IV: 182. Cf. Albistur & Armogathe, Histoire du F\u00e9minisme fran\u00e7ais (1977), 160-161. Item #4135 edition of a best-selling misogynistic rant, alphabetically ordered. Directed in principle, according to Paul Lacroix, against Marguerite de Valois (who died in 1615), identified in the vituperative dedication as \u201cla plus mauvaise du monde,\u201d the condemnation of the Queen\u2019s vanity and viciousness is extended to the entire female sex. From Avidissimum animal \/ Tres-avide animal and Bestiale baratrum \/ Abysme de bestise to Yvrognesse \u00e9hont\u00e9e (the letter Y permitting no Latin term) and Zelus zelotipus \/ Z\u00e8le jaloux, each of the 23 chapters explores a human vice, psychic failing, or personality defect, rather arbitrarily applying it to women in particular. Citing the Bible, classical texts, and a few contemporary poets, the author envelopes his non-arguments in a rich French vocabulary of often alliterative insults, objects, animals and plants. Following the letter Z are several short pieces: a letter to the censor, a long poem titled \u201cRessentiment de la malice des femmes,\u201d and, as promised in the preface to the reader as proof of the author\u2019s open-mindedness, a dozen pages of advice to \u201cvirtuous women.\u201d The edition concludes with a colorful subject index. – Mirroring the libellous nature of the text, the title vignette shows a woman [Marguerite] with snakes as hair and chicken\u2019s feet, holding a headless chicken and suckling a pair of kittens (so identified in the dedication) from two pendulous breasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26014,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[773,807,1010,59,914],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26013","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-frauenliteratur","7":"product_cat-fremdsprachig","8":"product_cat-gender","9":"product_cat-kulturgeschichte","10":"product_cat-zvab","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/26013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/26013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27701,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/26013\/revisions\/27701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=26013"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=26013"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiquariat-steinbach.com\/rarebooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=26013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}