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CERVANTES (Miguel de). HISTOIRE de Don Quichotte de la Manche. Paris. s.d. - CERVANTES (Miguel de) HISTOIRE de Don Quichotte de la Manche . Traduite de l' Espagnol de Michel de Cervantes par Filleau de Saint-Martin. Paris: Bernardin-Béchet, s.d. [8], 380 pp., 8 grav.: il.; 245 mm. A popular illustrated edition of the classic translation by François Filleau de Saint-Martin (1632-1691), the French version of Don Quixote that dominated the reception of the work in France during the 18th century. The original translation, entitled Histoire de l'admirable Don Quixotte de la Manche , was published in four volumes by Barbin in 1677-1678 and is distinguished from the earlier translation by César Oudin by the elegance and fluidity of its style. Filleau modified the ending of Cervantes' novel, having Don Quixote recover from his madness instead of dying, and the translation was later supplemented by a continuation by Robert Challe. This Bernardin-Béchet edition belongs to the series of nineteenth-century reprints of this translation, presented in a single volume with an iconographic apparatus of 8 extra-text engravings. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate