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Les nouvelles françaises ou les divertissements de la princesse Aurelie
172214676à Paris: Chez Guillaume Saucrain 1722. Fine. Chez Guillaume Saucrain à Paris 1722 16 x 9.50 cm 2 volumes brochés New edition after the original of 1657 Sommaville. Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 unsigned figures one for each novella as frontispiece. In original wrappers lacking binding. A light dampstain at the end of volume I in the middle. Segrais 1624-1701 was secretary to Mademoiselle de Montpensier from whom Madame de Lafayette would draw a narrative and director of the French Academy. The collection comprises 6 historical novellas a genre inaugurated a few years earlier by Madame de Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves. Lafayette's novels appeared under Segrais's pseudonym. In the preface Segrais speaks of a princess close to Louis XIV and retired to a castle with her attendants each telling a story the whole forming the entertainments of Princess Aurélie. These novellas constitute an important ensemble for 17th-century literature and a decisive step close to Madame de Lafayette's literature toward the modern narrative. Chez Guillaume Saucrain unknown
