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SAINT-LAMBERT (Jean-François de). LES SAISONS, Poëme. A Amsterdam. 1775. - SAINT-LAMBERT (Jean-François de) LES SAISONS, Poëme . Septième édition. A Amsterdam: s.n., 1775. 468 pp., 7 grav.: il.; 240 mm. Seventh edition, the first with illustrations by Moreau le Jeune. The original edition of the Saisons text was published in Amsterdam in 1769, illustrated by Gravelot; the present edition, although presented as the ”septième édition, ” is a reprint of the 1769 edition printed on thicker paper, to which has been added the iconographic apparatus designed by Moreau le Jeune and engraved by Delaunay, Duclos, Prévost, Lebas, and Simonet, with vignettes by Choffard. The indication ”To Amsterdam” is a conventional publishing address – the edition probably came from Parisian presses. The edition adds to the poem of the seasons two philosophical prose stories, L'Abénaki and Ziméo , as well as Pièces fugitives and Fables orientales . Jean-François de Saint-Lambert (Nancy, 1716 – Paris, 1803), French poet, philosopher, and military officer, a frequent visitor to Enlightenment salons, was the lover of Émilie du Châtelet and Mme d'Houdetot. His poem *Les Saisons* , begun in 1733 and published only in 1769, earned him entry into the Académie française, supported by Voltaire, who wrote about it: ”c'est le seul ouvrage de notre siècle qui passera à la postérité” (it is the only work of our century that will pass into posterity). The work is considered the greatest example of descriptive and bucolic poetry of the 18th century in France. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Brunet, v.V, c. 52