Foucault I Pierre

PETITOT, M. ; MONMERQUE, M. (dir.): Collection complete des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France. I : Depuis le regne de Philippe-Auguste, jusqu'au commencement du XVIIIe siecle (1ere Serie) ; II : Depuis l'avenement de Henry IV jusqu'a la paix de Paris, conclue en 1763 (2eme Serie). (52 Tomes et 78 Tomes - Complet).

Avec des notices sur chaque auteur et des observations sur chaque ouvrage, par MM. Petitot et Monmerque ; 132 vol in-8 rel. demi-basane fauve, dos lisse a 5 faux-nerfs dores, tranches jaunes mouchetees de rouge, piece de titre en maroquin vert, Foucault, Paris, 1819-1827 ; Imposante et remarquable collection de 132 volumes, bien complete de ses deux series (la premiere serie comprend 52 tomes en 53 vol. ; la seconde serie comprend 78 tomes en 79 vol.), comprenant notamment les deux tables generales, mais egalement la rare notice de presentation. Bel ensemble, rare ainsi complet, dans une reliure uniforme pour les deux series, et dont les qq. defauts (accrocs et mq. parfois importants au dos d'une dizaine de volumes de la seconde serie, mq. le dos, conserve, du tome 16) ne sauraient affecter l'importance (cf. Brunet, II, 145 et 146). Les ouvrages portent l'ex-libris de Juliette Thaes Dupuy-d'Astorg (avec la devise des Astorg : "Nihil me Pavet" ; cf. Chassant, IV, 340) ; Alexandre d'Astorg avait epouse Juliette Thaes Dupuy, fille de Andre-Julien Dupuy, l'intendant des etablissements francais a l'Est du Cap de 1790 a 1800 et prefet des Iles de France et Bourbon en 1803. La premiere Serie contient : Tome I : Geoffroy de Ville-Hardoin, conquete de Constantinople ; II : Jean Sire de Joinville, Histoire de S. Louis ; III : Extraits des manuscrits arabes et dissertations de Du Cange ; IV et V : Anciens Memoires du XIVe siecle par Bertrand Du Guesclin et observations relatives a ces memoires ; V et VI : Le livre des faiz du Roi Charles V par Christine de Pizan ; VI et VII : Histoire de Boucicaut ; VII : Histoire de Pierre de Fenin ; VIII : Memoires concernant la Pucelle d'Orleans ; Memoires d'Arthus III, duc de Bretagne ; Memoires relatifs a Florent, sire d'Illiers ; IX et X : Olivier de la Marche ; XI a XIV : Memoire de Jacq. du Clercq ; Memoires de Comines ; Chronique scandaleuse de Jean de Troyes ; Memoires de Guillaume de Villeneuve ; Memoires de La Tremoille, par Jean Bouchet ; XV : Histoire de Bayart, par le loyal serviteur ; XVI : Robert de la Marck, seigneur de Fleurange ; Louise de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulesme ; XVII a XIX : Martin et Guillaume du Bellay ; XX a XXII : Blaise de Montluc ; XXIII a XXV : Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavannes ; XXVI a XXVIII : Franc. de Scepeaux, sire de Vieilleville ; XXVIII a XXX : Franc. de Boyvin, baron du Villars ; XXXI et XXXII : Francois de Rabutin ; le siege de Metz, en 1552 ; Discours de Gaspar de Colligny ; Memoire du voyage du duc de Guyse, en Italie, par de La Chastre ; Guillaume de Rochechouart ; XXXIII : Mich. de Castelnau ; XXXIV : Jean de Mergey ; Francois de La Noue ; Achille Gamon ; Jean Philippi ; XXXV : Le duc de Bouillon ; Guillaume de Sceaux, seigneur de Tavannes ; XXXVI : Phil. Hurault, comte de Cheverny, et Ph. Hurault, abbe de Pontlevoy ; XXXVII : Marguerite de Valois ; Jacq.-Aug. de Thou ; XXXVIII : Jean Choisnin ; Mathieu Merle ; XXXXIX a XLIII : Chronologie novenaire de P. Cayet ; XLIII : Jacques Pape, Seigneur de Saint Auban ; XLIV : De Neufville, segneur de Villeroy ; Le duc d'Angouleme ; XLV a XLIX : Memoires et journal de Henri III, Henri IV et Louis XIII par de l'Estoile, avec la relation de J. Gillot ; les Memoires de Claude Groulard et de De Marillac ; L et LI : Duval, marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil ; LII : Table generale et analytique des matieres par M. Delbare ; LIII : Notice relative a la collection des Memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France ; la Seconde Serie comprend : Tomes I a IX : Memoires des sages et royales oeconomies d'estat de Henry le Grand (Memoires de Sully) ; X et XI : Histoire de la mere et du fils, et succincte narration par le card. de Richelieu ; Precis de l'histoire des Provinces Unies par Laurent ; XI a XVI : Negociation de Jeannin ; XVI et XVII : Le marechal d'Estrees et Pontchartrain ; XVIIII et XIX : Le duc de Rohan ; XIX a XXI : Le marechal de Bassompierre ; XXII a XXX : Le cardinal de Richelieu (le tome XXI bis propose une reimpression des dix premiers livres livres meilleure que la premiere) ; XXXI et XXXII : Gaston d'Orleans ; le sieur de Pontis ; XXXIII et XXXIV : Rob. Arnauld d'Andilly ; l'abbe Arnaud ; la duchesse de Nemours ; XXXV et XXXVI : Le comte de Brienne ; XXXXVI a XL : Mad. de Motteville ; XL a XLIII : Mlle de Montpensier ; XLIV a XLVI : Le Cardinal de Retz ; XLVII : Guy Joly et Cl. Joly ; XLVIII : Val. Conrart ; le P. Berthod ; XLIX a LI : Monglat ; LI et LII : Le comte de La Chatre ; La Rochefoucauld ; Gourville ; LIII et LIV : Pierre Lenet ; Montresor ; Relation de De Fontrailles ; LV et LVI : Le duc de Guyse ; LVI et LVII : Le marechal de Gramont ; le marechal Du Plessis ; LVIII et LIX : Memoires de M. de *** et Memoires de P. de La Porte ; LX a LXIII : Omer Talon ; l'abbe de Choisy ; LXIV : Le chevalier Temple ; LXIV et LXV : Madame de La Fayette ; LXV et LXVI : La Fare ; Le marechal de Berwick ; Mad. de Caylus ; LXVII et LXVIII : Le marquis de Torcy ; LXVIII a LXXI : Le marechal de Villers ; LXXI a LXXIV : Le duc de Noailles ; LXXIV et LXXV : Le comte de Forbin ; Duguay-Trouin ; LXXVI et LXXVII : Memoires secrets de Duclos ; Mad. de Staal ; LXXVIII : Table generale et analytique des matieres

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Ford, Mark: Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams, London Faber and Faber 2000
ISBN: 0571174094 New

Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, and drug addict. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman. Roussel was the third and last child in his family, with a brother Georges and sister Germaine. In 1893, at age 15, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire for piano. A year later, he inherited a substantial fortune from his deceased father and began to write poetry to accompany his musical compositions. At age 17, he wrote Mon Ame, a long poem published three years later in Le Gaulois. By 1896, he had commenced editing his long poem La Doublure when he suffered a mental crisis. After the poem was published on June 10, 1897 and was completely unsuccessful, Roussel began to see the psychiatrist Pierre Janet. In subsequent years, his inherited fortune allowed him to publish his own works and mount luxurious productions of his plays. He wrote and published some of his most important work between 1900 and 1914, and then from 1920 to 1921 traveled around the world. He continued to write for the next decade, but when his fortune finally gave out, he made his way to a hotel in Palermo, where he died of a barbiturate overdose in 1933. He is buried in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Roussel's most famous works are Impressions of Africa and Locus Solus, both written according to formal constraints based on homonymic puns. Roussel kept this compositional method a secret until the publication of his posthumous text, How I Wrote Certain of My Books, where he describes it as follows: "I chose two similar words. For example billiards and pilliards (looter). Then I added to it words similar but taken in two different directions, and I obtained two almost identical sentences thus. The two sentences found, it was a question of writing a tale which can start with the first and finish by the second. Amplifying the process then, I sought new words reporting itself to the word billiards, always to take them in a different direction than that which was presented first of all, and that provided me each time a creation moreover. The process evolved/moved and I was led to take an unspecified sentence, of which I drew from the images by dislocating it, a little as if it had been a question of extracting some from the drawings of rebus." For example, Les lettres du blanc sur les bandes du vieux billard/The white letters on the cushions of the old billiard table must somehow reach the phrase, les lettres du blanc sur les bandes du vieux pillard/letters [written by] a white man about the hordes of the old plunderer. John Ashbery summarizes Locus Solus thus in his introduction to Michel Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth: "A prominent scientist and inventor, Martial Canterel, has invited a group of colleagues to visit the park of his country estate, Locus Solus. As the group tours the estate, Canterel shows them inventions of ever-increasing complexity and strangeness. Again, exposition is invariably followed by explanation, the cold hysteria of the former giving way to the innumerable ramifications of the latter. After an aerial pile driver which is constructing a mosaic of teeth and a huge glass diamond filled with water in which float a dancing girl, a hairless cat, and the preserved head of Danton, we come to the central and longest passage: a description of eight curious tableaux vivants taking place inside an enormous glass cage. We learn that the actors are actually dead people whom Canterel has revived with 'resurrectine,' a fluid of his invention which if injected into a fresh corpse causes it continually to act out the most important incident of its life." New Impressions of Africa is a 1,274-line poem, consisting of four long cantos in rhymed alexandrines, each a single sentence with parenthetical asides that run up to five levels deep. From time to time, a footnote refers to a further poem containing its own depths of brackets. Perhaps not surprisingly, Roussel was unpopular during his lifetime and critical reception of his works was almost unanimously negative. Nevertheless, he was admired by the Surrealist group and other avant-garde writers, particularly Michel Leiris and Marcel Duchamp. He began to be rediscovered in the late 1950s, by the Oulipo and Alain Robbe-Grillet. His most direct influence in the English speaking world was on the New York School of poets; John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch briefly edited a magazine called Locus Solus after his novel. French theorist Michel Foucault's only book-length work of literary criticism is on Roussel. First Edition New Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: SURREALISM ZAZIE FANTASY FRENCH LITERATURE FRANCE RAYMOND QUENEAU SCIENCE FICTION HORROR GOTHIC PATAPHYSICS DADAISM ALFRED JARRY Raymond Roussel Africa Oulipo Biography Literary Criticism Andre BretonSurrealism]

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Foucault, Michel (1926-1984), ed: I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and, NY 1975
0394493109

Very Good Translated by Frank Jellinek. NY: Pantheon Books, [1975]. 1st Edition in English, 1st American printing. [xiv]+288+[2]pp. Printed black cloth. A very good copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. HB

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Kriegel, Blandine; Foucault, Michel: I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ..: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century, New York, New York, U.S.A. Pantheon Books 1975
ISBN: 0394493109 Very Good

First American Edition Stated The jacket has two long closed tears & some wrinkling to rear of dj, & a 1 1/2" chip to jacktes rear panel. The book is clean, name & note free V/G in a Good but chipped Dj 8vo 288 pgs First American Edition Stated Good + Chipped Hard Cover

[SW: HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY/THEORY]

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