Charles Pinot Duclos / Roger - Oeuvres complètes. [Histoire de Louis XI, Voyage en Italie, Mémoire sur la langue françoise...] - 1806

First collective edition, partly original, with very interesting memoirs relating events experienced directly by Duclos, who was a protégé of Madame de Pompadour and elected to the French Academy in 1746.

Adorned with six medallion portraits engraved by B. Roger, including a portrait of the author as a frontispiece.

The set is preserved in uniform half-brown calf bindings with corners, spines with gilt fillets, title and volume labels in green and ochre leather, gilt initials.
In good condition overall; minor leather losses at the joints of volumes 1, 8, and 10. Minor rubbing to the headcaps and corners, spine slightly faded, but not serious. Interior fresh and clean with a few scattered foxing spots, quite rare. A fine copy.

Charles Pinot Duclos, born in Dinan on February 12, 1704, and died in Paris on March 26, 1772, was a French writer and historian. He made his literary debut in collections of humorous pieces published by the literary figures of the Count of Caylus's society. A protégé of Madame de Pompadour and Madame de Tencin, a frequent guest in philosophical salons and literary cafés, and a member of the Caveau society, he was appointed to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1739 without any apparent justification. On January 26, 1747, he was admitted to the Académie Française, despite having written only three (libertine) novels, a ballet, and a historical essay, *Histoire de Louis XI* (1745). In 1750, he replaced Voltaire as France's historiographer, who was leaving for Prussia.

Charles Pinot Duclos
Complete works
Paris, Fain and Company printing house, at Antoine-Augustin Renouard's, 1806
10 volumes in-8 (20 x 13cm); approximately 450 pages