"Furetière (antoine) - The Bourgeois Novel. Chez E. Picard, 1868, In Navy Blue Cardboard."
FURETIERE (Antoine) - The bourgeois novel comic book published by Antoine Furetière. Paris, Chez E. Picard, 1868; in-12, XII-201 + 163 pp., full navy blue canvas cardboard, smooth spine. The 2 volumes. Antoine Furetière, born in 1619 in Paris where he died in 1688, is a man of the church, poet, fabulist, novelist and French lexicographer. Above all, he is the author of a dictionary, the publication of which has confused him with all of his colleagues at the Académie Française. Le Roman bourgeois is his most famous novel. With notice and notes by Mr. Pierre Jannet. Collection "New Jannet Collection".