Bidspirit auction | PIGAULT-LEBRUN. MONSIEUR Botte. Paris. 1818.

PIGAULT-LEBRUN. MONSIEUR Botte. Paris. 1818. - PIGAULT-LEBRUN MONSIEUR Botte . Paris: Chez Barba, 1818. 2 v.: [4], 224 pp., 1 est.; [4], 208 pp., 1 est.: il.; 175 mm. Reissue, by the same publisher as the original edition (1803), in two volumes. The original edition was one of the greatest successes of Pigault-Lebrun (Calais, 1753 - La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1835), a novelist and playwright considered a precursor of the French popular novel of the 19th century. The novel, with its comic and satirical vein, is inspired by the figure of the ”bourru bienfaisant” - the good-hearted brute. Complete set. Interesting. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate