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Rhetorica

Title
Rhetorica [microform], 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.
Author
Porée, Charles, 1675-1741.

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TextRestricted use *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76 [Manuscript]Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
TextRestricted use *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a [Microfilm]Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Robert, active 1715.
  • Vallet, Jérôme, 1667-approximately 1722.
  • Bonnart, Henri, 1642-1711.
  • Martin J. Gross Collection.
Description
1 ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Bound volume containing manuscript, in a contemporary hand, of a course on rhetoric taught by Porée at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, where Voltaire was a student 1704-1711.
Alternative Title
  • Ars rhetorica
  • Eloquentia.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Class notes – France – 18th century.
Note
  • Title supplied in ms. on blank portion of engraved t.p. form bearing imprint: A Paris : Chez Vallet graveur du roy, ruë St. Jacques au buste de Louis 14, 1713.
  • "Finis totius Rhetoricae datae á Reuerendissimo Patre Poree ... 1715. Robert"--P. 164. Signature "Robert" also on recto of free back endpaper.
  • "[Ars] rhetoricae. De eloquentiâ. Appendix, quid eloquentiam Gallicam inter et Latinam sit discriminis": p. 165-167. "De pace ... De Augusto ...": p. 168-169.
  • Volume also contains full-page etching (bust of Cicero with legend beginning "Marc-Tulle Ciceron, romain tres eloquent ..."; signed "Chez H. Bonnart, au Coq"), bound following p. 94, and ca. 24 blank leaves, chiefly at end.
  • Binding: Contemporary calf, gilt. Binder's title: Ars rhetor.
Reproduction (note)
  • Microfilm.
Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
  • Bibliothèque Mazarine, Stanford Univ. Libraries
Biography (note)
  • French Jesuit rhetorician and dramatist; born Vendes (Calvados), Sept. 4, 1675; died Paris, Jan. 11, 1741; named professor of rhetoric at Louis-le-Grand in 1708 and continued to teach there until his death. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, VI, col. 1021-1033.
Provenance (note)
  • Martin J. Gross Collection.
Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a
OCLC
NYPW02-A45
Author
Porée, Charles, 1675-1741.
Title
Rhetorica [microform], 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.
Reproduction
Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 2002. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 2002. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN: *ZZ-37993)
Provenance
Martin J. Gross Collection.
Biography
French Jesuit rhetorician and dramatist; born Vendes (Calvados), Sept. 4, 1675; died Paris, Jan. 11, 1741; named professor of rhetoric at Louis-le-Grand in 1708 and continued to teach there until his death. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, VI, col. 1021-1033. Voltaire studied rhetoric under Porée in 1709-1710, and remained in contact with him long afterward. "Son plus grand mérite fut de faire aimer les lettres et la vertu à ses disciples"--Voltaire, in his catalog of writers of the age of Louis XIV (in Le siècle de Louis XIV, first published 1751).
Location of Other Archival Materials
Other mss. of Porée's course in rhetoric are in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, France (dated 1738; cf. Backer-Sommervogel, col. 1030-1031) and Stanford Univ. Libraries, Stanford, CA (in a compendium dated 1752-1753; cf. RLIN CSUR90-A20).
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Added Author
Robert, active 1715. Transcriber
Vallet, Jérôme, 1667-approximately 1722. Printer of plates
Bonnart, Henri, 1642-1711. Printer of plates
Martin J. Gross Collection.
Running Title
Ars rhetorica
Added Title
Eloquentia.
Research Call Number
*KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a [Microfilm]
*KGV (Voltaire) 02-76 [Manuscript]
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