[Guillaume Du Vair] - De L'Eloquence françoise - 1606

[Guillaume Du Vair] - On French Eloquence. By G. D. V. Rouen, Claude Le Villain, 1606. Petit in-12, 287 pp., vellum binding of the period, with cords. Published for the first time in 1594. This work is a treatise devoted to the art of oratory in the French language. Du Vair lays out the principles of eloquence, the way to compose and deliver a speech, as well as the qualities necessary for the orator. He seeks to show that French can attain a genuine literary and rhetorical dignity, in the context of the formation of French prose at the beginning of the 17th century.

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