[MERCURE GALANT]. Mercure galant. Paris [and other places], - Lot 130

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[MERCURE GALANT]. Mercure galant. Paris [and other places], - Lot 130
[MERCURE GALANT]. Mercure galant. Paris [and other places], 1672 (first year) - 1708. Set of about 230 volumes in-12 in calf or vellum (for 2 vols.). Mismatched collection (published by different publishers in Paris or in the provinces) and damaged comprising volumes from the years - 1672 (1), - 1673 (1), - 1677 (11), - 1678 (13), - 1679 (12), - 1680 (13), - 1681 (14), - 1682 (14), - 1683 (14), - 1684 (4), - 1685 (11), - 1686 (6), - 1687 (6), - 1688 (14), - 1689 (14), - 1690 (11), - 1691 (8), - 1692 (3), - 1693 (6), - 1694 (11), - 1695 (9), - 1696 (5), - 1697 (5), - 1698 (10), - 1699 (2), - 1700 (2), - 1703 (3), - 1704 (3), - 1705 (3), - 1706 (1), - 1707 (2) & - 1708 (1). "Created by Jean Donneau de Visé (1638-1710) in May 1672, this publication, at first quarterly then soon monthly, was entitled Le Mercure galant from 1672 to 1674, then Le Nouveau Mercure galant during the year 1677, then Mercure galant from 1678 to 1714, then Nouveau Mercure galant from 1714 to 1716, then Le Nouveau Mercure from 1717 to 1721, then Le Mercure from 1721 to 1723, then Mercure de France from 1724 to 1791. It was the first French literary and social review. Its worldly notebook, which competed with the Gazette of Théophraste Renaudot, provided various information on the great families of the court nobility. Like the Gazette, the Mercure was completed by "Extraordinaires" which proposed detailed reports of political and military events " (Ch. L.).
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