Histoire universelle de Jacques Auguste de Thou, depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607 : Traduite sur l'édition latine de Londres (v.11)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Histoire universelle de Jacques Auguste de Thou, depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607 : Traduite sur l'édition latine de Londres (v.11)
Classmark: Modern History C-2.1 THO
Creator(s): Thou, Jacques-Auguste de (1553-1617)
Additional creator(s): Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot (1685-1745) (Other); Prévost abbé (1697-1763) (Other); Du Ryer, Pierre (1658) (Other); Du Pont, Franc̦ois (1725) (Other); Fabre, Jean Claude (1668-1753) (Other); Rigault, Nicolas (1577-1654) (Other); Dupuy, Pierre (1582-1651) (Other)
Related people: Thou, Franc̦ois Auguste de, 1607-1642
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Publication city: Londres
Date(s): 1734
Language: French
Size and medium: 16 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/203294
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010172039705181
Description
Vol. 1 includes Mémoires de la vie de J. A. de Thou; Poésies latines de J. A. de Thou; Préface à Henri IV.
Vol. 15: Suite de l'Histoire de J. A. de Thou, par N. Rigault; Pieces concernant l'Histoire; Mémoires et instructions pour servir à justifier l'innocence de Messire Franc̦ois-Auguste de Thou.
Vol. 16: Table des matières.
Actually published in Paris.
Edited by Defontaines, whose collaborators are said to have included Jacques Adam, Charles Lebeau, Nicolas Leduc, J. B. Le Mascrier, Georgeon (who wrote the preface) and Fabre (table of contents) According to Harrisse, the translation was a revision of the partial translation by Pierre Du Ryper (Paris, 1657. 3 v.), its unpublished continuation by Du Pont and others, and the translation of v. 1 and several books of the last volume by Prévost. Prévost's translation of v. 1 was published at the Hague in 1733. cf. Harrisse, H. Le président de Thou et... les traductions franc̦aises de J.-A. Thuani Historiarum sui temporis. Paris, 1905, p. 98-130.
Notes by P. Dupuis. cf. Quérard; Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Published in Paris.
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