Théâtre classique contenant Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte de P. Corneille. Britannicus, Esther, Athalie de J. Racine. Mérope de Voltaire. Le Misanthrope de Molière. Avec les préfaces des auteurs, les examens de Corneille, les variantes et les principales imitations. Edit. Ad. Regnier. (Nouvelles éditions classiques publiées avec des notes historiques et littéraires). Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1863

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  • Constadin Cavafy














  • 1. 18th April 1884 2. Public Opinion

  •    1. “La femme contrefaite que son mari
       2. trouve droite, la boiteuse qu’ un homme
       3. ne veut pas autrement, ou la femme
       4. âgée qui paraît jeune, ne sont-elles
       5. pas les plus hereuses créatures du
       6. monde féminin? – La passion ne sau-
       7. rait aller au-delà... – La gloire de
       8. la femme n’ est-elle pas de faire ado-

       9. rer ce qui paraît un défaut en elle?

       10.                       Balzac
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- CAVAFY LIBRARY

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GR-OF CA CL.8.11
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Théâtre classique contenant Le Cid, Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte de P. Corneille. Britannicus, Esther, Athalie de J. Racine. Mérope de Voltaire. Le Misanthrope de Molière. Avec les préfaces des auteurs, les examens de Corneille, les variantes et les principales imitations

EDITOR:
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Regnier, Ad.
PUBLISHER:
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Librairie Hachette et Cie
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Nouvelles éditions classiques publiées avec des notes historiques et littéraires

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1863
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French


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18 x 10 cm; 2 s.p. + 724 p. + 2 inserts, between front cover and l. 1 is an improvised clipping with John Cavafy’s poem “Super flumina Babylonis”, which was published in Public Opinion in 1884; the title of the journal and the date are marked with pencil. L. 1 title page and bookplate CPC on recto, p. [1] half-title page, p. [2] Bolieau’s and Jean de La Bruyère’s reviews about the work Cid, p. [3]-4 “Εpitre de Corneille”, p. [5]-9 “Αvertissement de Corneille”. Pencil marks on p. 11, 170, 498, 503-504, 650, 670. C. P. Cavafy’s handwritten signature with pencil in French on p. 504. Handwritten note with a passage from Balzac’s work found between p. 650-651. P. [723]-724 “Table des matières” and p. 724 colophon. Titles of the publishing house and typographical data on back cover.


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CPC
Constantin Cavafy

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Press clipping
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Insert with the printed poem “Super flumina Babylonis” by John Cavafy, which is a translation of Psalm 136. Linked with the following documents of the archive: https://cavafy.onassis.org/el/object/john-46/, https://cavafy.onassis.org/el/object/john-9/


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Balzac, Honoré de
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Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas
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Cavafy, John Constantine
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Regnier, Ad.
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Public Opinion
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Nouvelles éditions classiques publiées avec des notes historiques et littéraires
SUBJECT:
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Theatre

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