‎ROLLAND (D'ERCEVILLE, B.G.)‎
‎Recherches sur les prérogatives des Dames ches les Gaulois, sur les cours d'amour, Ainsi que sur les privilèges qu'en France les meres nobles transmettoient autrefois à leurs descendans, quoique issus de pères roturiers, où l'on expose les vestiges qui restent de ces anciens usages; le tout précédé de quelques réflexions sur l'influence & la part que les femmes ont eues, non-seulement dans tous les Gouvernemens, mais même dans toutes les révolutions, ainsi que dans les Sciences & les Arts. Par M. le Président Rolland, de l'Académie d'Amiens.‎

‎A Paris, Chez Nyon l'aîné, 1787. (4), xii, 212, (2, approbation, errata, blank) pp. 12mo. Nineteenth-century half red red morocco, corners, marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt stamped floral ornaments in the compartments, gilt lettering, top edge gilt (bound by E. Thomas). Cioranescu 53906; Gay, iii, 939; Brunet 23212; INED 3889; Bibliothèque Aletta Jacobs, p. 15. First and uncommon edition of an interesting work on the social and legal status of women in France up to the end of the eighteenth century. Rolland D'Erceville looks beyond the confines of his own country and also deals with women throughout Europe. Includes chapters on the troubadours, the influence of women on the government, women in science and the arts, chapters on the courts of love, etc. The work also contains a very interesting analysis of works dealing with the equality between the sexes and a bibliography concerning the education of princes. Barthelemy Gabriel Rolland d'Erceville (1734-1794) was the first president of the Chambre de Requêtes of the Parlement de Paris. He became an enemy of the Terror and was guillotined. 'Ouvrage contenant des détails curieux qui doivent le faire rechercher.....' (Michaud).Small loss in margin of leaves F7-8, not affecting text, and leaf I, also not affecting text.A very nice copy, provenance: the lyonnais bibliophile Joseph Renard, with his ex-libris on the front paste-down. ‎

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