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Biographie toulousaine, ou, Dictionnaire historique Des Personnages qui par des vertus, des talens, des écrits, de grandes actions, des fondations utiles, des opinions singulières, des erreurs, etc. [...] Tome II.

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Étienne-Léon] [de Lamothe-LangonJean T. (Jean Théodore] [Laurent GousseAlexandre] [Du Mège1 editions

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Full title:</b> Biographie toulousaine, ou, Dictionnaire historique Des Personnages qui par des vertus, des talens, des écrits, de grandes actions, des fondations utiles, des opinions singulières, des erreurs, etc. se sont rendus célèbres dans la ville de Toulouse, ou qui ont contribué à son illustration, par une société des gens de lettres, Ouvrage précédé d’un Précis de l’Histoire de Toulouse, de Tables Chronologiques des Souverains, Évêques, Archevêques, Magistrats, etc. de cette cité; des Pape, Cardinaux, Grands-Maîtres de Malthe, etc. qu’elle a fourni, et des Conciles qui s’y sont tenus. Tome II.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. [4], 552. Calf. Bookplate “From the reference library of H.P. Kraus, Oak Knoll Books, MMIII” removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the entries in the Biographie Toulousaine includes the fabricated biography of the medieval poet Clémence Isaure, the imaginary fifteenth-century benefactress of the medieval verse-competition ‘les Jeux Floreaux de Toulouse’, by Alexandre Louis Charles André Du Mège. Du Mège, a self-taught antiquary and archaeologist of Toulouse, was adding circumstantial details to the legend as first formulated in the sixteenth-century. See J.-F. Jeandillou, Supercheries littéraires: la vie et l’oeuvre des auteurs supposés. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; préface de Michel Arrivé. Geneva, 2001, pp. 78–88.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102929" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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