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== Treatise ==
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! <p>Illustrations</p>
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! <p>{{rating|B|Transcription (from the BNF scans)}}<br/>by [[Wandrille Duchemin]]</p>
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| <p>AV ROY.</p>
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<p>SIRE.</p>
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<p>Je n'aurois jamais ose presenter cet Ouvrage à VOSTRE MAJESTE',
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si l'accüeil favorable qu'elle fait à tous ceux qui soccupent pour le bien
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public ne m'en avoit donne la liberté. Je craignois que tout ce que mon
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travail peut avoir de beau & d'éclatant ne s'évanoüist à la veuë des
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lumieres de vostre esprit , & que tout ce que le mien pourroit produire
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de meilleur ne fut pas digne du moindre de vos regards , mais quand<p>
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<p>SIRE.</p>
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<p>I would have never dared to present this book to YOUR MAJESTY,
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if the favorable welcome with whom She meets all who care for the
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common good had not given me that freedom. I feared everything in my
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work which may be beautiful or outstanding fades in the lights of
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your spirit, & that the best that mine could produce would not
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be worthy of the smallest of your glance, however when</p>
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Revision as of 11:54, 24 May 2023

Philibert de la Touche
Born 17th century
Nevers
Occupation
Nationality French
Genres
Language
Notable work(s) Les Vrais Principes de l'Espée Seule (1670)
Manuscript(s)
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Treatise