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JACQUEMART (A.). FLORE DES DAMES: Nouveau Langage des Fleurs. Paris. s.d. - JACQUEMART (A.) FLORE DES DAMES: Nouveau Langage des Fleurs . Nouvelle Édition. Paris: Bernard Neuhaus, s.d. 314 pp., 12 est.: il.; 160 mm. This elegant floriography dictionary, intended for a female audience and illustrated with twelve color prints, is an 1840s edition, undated on the frontispiece. The work fits within the vast 19th-century publishing output dedicated to the ”language of flowers, ” a code of sentimental communication that the Romantic movement adopted and systematized from Eastern traditions, making it an accepted social practice in salons and private correspondence of the time. In France, the genre was inaugurated by Charlotte de Latour's *Langage des fleurs * (1819), which had 26 editions until 1876 and quickly generated dozens of competing titles. Jacquemart's Flore des Dames presents the symbolic meaning of each flower or plant, intended for women's use as a guide for composing and interpreting bouquets. The publisher Bernard Neuhaus, based in Paris, specialized in this type of elegant entertainment literature, frequently illustrated with hand-colored or chromolithographic prints of flowers. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate