Author: PROYART,M. L'ABBÉ
Title: VIE DU DAUPHIN PERE DE LOUIS XV tome premier and second
Description: Paris 1782, 438/390 pp., not ill., small leather bindings, Most of his life known as Duc de Bourgogne, Dauphin for a mere ten months, he was raised by the idealistic and pacific archbishop of Cambrai, Fénelon, predictably did not become a great war leader, promised, however, to replace the austere absolute monarchy of his grandfather Louis XIV by a more benign, limited form, along the lines of Fénelon’s famous Télémaque, hopes that were not fulfilled when the Dauphin died before Louis XIV did, so never became King of France. It can be imagined that, had this Dauphin had the opportunity and the ability to impose his views, France would not have known its French Revolution. (code N-37)

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