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LA MOTTE-MESSEMÉ (François Le Poulchre de).

The Seven Books of Honest Leisure. [...] Each titled after one of the Planettes. [...] Plus, un meslange de divers Poëmes, d'Elegies, Stances & Sonnets. Paris, Marc Orry [De l'Imprimerie de Pierre Hury], 1587. In-12, olive-green morocco, triple gilt fillet, spine decorated à la grotesque, interior roulette, gilt edges (18th-century binding). First edition of the first poetic collection by this poet from the Landes region, a former soldier who gave up his military career to devote himself to poetry. François Le Poulchre de La Motte-Messemé, born in Mont-de-Marsan in 1546, joined the army at the age of thirteen and fought in the king's troops, notably as captain of fifty men-at-arms. He took part in all the assaults and battles, particularly at Jarnac in 1569, where he witnessed the death of the Prince de Condé at the hands of Coligny, and at the siege of Poitiers the same year. In 1572, unfortunate events prompted him to lay down his arms and take up his pen. The author's woodcut coat of arms, featuring the collar of the Order of Saint-Michel awarded to him by Charles IX, appears on the verso of the title. Les Honnestes loisirs is a long autobiography of the author, from his birth to 1572, the year of the marriage of Marguerite de France (Queen Margot) to Henri de Navarre, the future Henri IV. The poem forms a kind of chronicle of the early Wars of Religion. It is completed by love verses and a mixture of various poems dedicated to important Court figures and other 16th-century poets. Pleasant 18th-century binding. The second title leaf is in facsimile. The first 12 leaves are a little shorter in margin. Spine faded. J. P. Barbier-Mueller, IV-3, n°5. - N. Ducimetière, Mignonne..., n°126. - Diane Barbier-Mueller, Inventaire..., n°423.

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LA MOTTE-MESSEMÉ (François Le Poulchre de).

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