LOUIS XIV SA COUR ET LE REGENT- tome I only
by: ANQUETIL Pierre Louis

Hardcover. Paris, Moutard, 1st, 1789, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leatherbond, chipped and worn, marbled endpapers, 336 pages. Vol. 1 only (of 4). FRENCH TEXT. Interior pages very good. Anquetil (1723 - 1806) became prior of the abbey of La Roee, in Anjou, in 1759 and soon after was appointed director of the college of Senlis, where he taught history and theology. He published this work just on the eve of the French Revolution (the Approbation is dated 30 September 1788) and was imprisoned during the Terror for his troubles.