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1687H15862Paris: Chez Abouin Emery & Clousier 1687. Hardcover. Very Good. Early edition. 12mo original calf very good with handsome gilt spine; minor rubbing contents very clean. 365 pp. A Catholic theologian and historian he earned the respect of both Louis XIV and his court and of French Enlightenment figures. Voltaire thought this treatise on education one of the best works on the subject. The Traité du Choix et de la Méthode des Etudes made interesting and significant proposals for a radical reform of education in seventeenth-century France. It also included a survey of educational history that Monroe and Kandel considered as very likely the first general work on the history of education in Cyclopedia of Education 1913. Also appended in the author's Discourse on Plato. Chez Abouin, Emery & Clousier hardcover