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FURTHER MANUSCRIPTS OF SAINT-AMANT - WILLIAM ROBERTS






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[1] Stfm: Reference throughout to Saint-Amant's critical edition Oeuvres, by Jacques Bailbé & Jean Lagny. Paris, M. Didier, 1967-79.
[2] Chéruel, A. "Lettre inedite de Saint-Amant", in Revue de Rouen et de la Normandie (1847), pp. 111-15.
[3] Livet, Ch.-L. Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Amant. Paris, P. Jannet, 1855, II, 491-493.
[4] Morrison, Alfred. Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882. [London], Strangeways, 1883-97. [1st
[ser.], vol. VI, p. 5. Microfiche ed. [U. Chicago].
[5] Morrison, Alfred. Catalogue of the renowned collection of Autograph Letters and Historical manuscripts formed by the late Alfred Morrison, esq., of Fonthill, and now the property of Mrs. Alfred Morrison. In Part 4, p. 409, lot no. 2732, Sotheby sale 5/5/1919. "Marc Saint-Armant" [sic] is listed in a parcel among letters by Racan, Quinault, Regnard, Saint Simon, Sainte Beuve. [U. Michigan].
[6] Loliée, Marc. Letters, June 1 and 19, 1959. C'était "un bon érudit qui... libraire-expert, conseillait utilement les chercheurs et leur signalait les documents pouvant les intéresser quand ils passaient entre ses mains" (Jean-Louis Debauve, Vente Laforgue, 1997).
[7] Roberts, William. "Saint-Amant and the Caroline Monarchs: Unknown Manuscripts." Actes d'Oxford: Modernités/ Modernities, Oxford, Peter Lang, 19 p. [for July 2007].
[8] The Catalogue des MSS. français (Firmin Didot, 1868) cites it as "Anc.7688 3.3."
[9] Roberts, William. "Bossuet's Henriette-Marie -- indebted to Saint-Amant?" Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, vol.IX, no. 17 (1982), p. 537-551.
[10 "Marolles, Michel de." Véronique Meyer, in Turner, Jane, ed. The Dictionary of Art. Grove, 1996, XX, 455-456.
[11] Lachèvre, Frédéric; Lagny, Jean. See Muzerelle, infra.
[12] Muzerelle, Danielle. Inventaire des manuscripts de la Biblothèque de l'Arsenal, 1977-2002, no. 15153.
[13] Gauthier-Ferrières. Anthologie des écrivains français du XVIIe siècle: Poésie. Bibliothèque Larousse, c.1917, p. 58.
[14] Moyse sauvé. Paris, A.Courbé, 1653, 1st ed.
[15] Lagny, Jean. Bibliographie des éditions anciennes de Saint-Amant. Paris, Giraud-Badin, 1960, #36, pp. 43-46; Le Poète Saint-Amant. Paris, A.G. Nizet, 1964.
[16] The noted Saint-Amant scholar Richard Sayce was a [longtime] Fellow of Worcester College. I must thank the Librarians Dr. Joanna Parker and Natalia Perevezentseva for enabling me to examine this and other volumes, and to obtain a slide of the envoi from the Bodleian Media Services
[17] Chatelain, Jean-Marc. Letter of 8/13/05, citing the Librairie Pierre Bérès catalogue 69 (1977), no. 422.
[18] Manuscrits et livres précieux de la Renaissance au cubisme. Chartres, Librairie Sourget, [1988], item 85.
[(Bibl. des Arts Décoratifs).
[19] Pierre Berès (Firm). Dix-septième siècle: romans, poèsies, etc.: entrèes, livres de fêtes, recueils d'ornementation, livres scientifiques, etc.... provenant, pour la plupart, des collections de Frédéric Lachèvre et du général Willems, ou des collections de personnages et bibliophiles fameux du dix-septième au vingtième siècle. Catalogue 69, Paris, 1977, nos. 422-423.
[20] Scholl, Dorothée. Moyse sauvé: poétique et originalité de l'idylle héroïque de Saint-Amant. Paris; Seattle. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1995, pp. 200-204. (See also her analysis of Marolles' theoretical position on the epic, p. 208-211).
[21] Tallemant des Réaux, Historiettes, ed. Antoine Adam, Paris, Gallimard "Pléiade," I, x-xiii. Magne, Emile, La Joyeuse jeunesse de Tallemant des Réaux. Paris, Emile-Paul, 1921, p. 46 n.
[22] Saint-Amant, Moyse Sauvé (1653). Exemplaire coté LUD 74 in the Fonds Médard Collection, in the Bibliothèque Municipale at Lunel (Hérault), France. Formerly in the library of the Marquis de Fontanes, according to the Catalogue Médard [Abes].
[23] Brice, Germain. Description de la ville de Paris (reprod. 9e ed.), Genève-Paris, Droz-Minard, 1971, pp. D 73-75; 352.
[24] "Duc de Liancourt" [Roger du Plessis, marquis then Duc (1598-1674)]. Anne Thackeray, in Turner, Jane, ed. The Dictionary of Art. Grove, 1996, XIX, 300. Plan reproduced in Blunt, Anthony. Art and Architecture in France, Baltimore, 1970, pp. 119-120. Hautecoeur, Louis. Histoire de l'architecture classique en France, Paris, Picard, 1943-57, t. 1(2), passim.
[25] Evelyn, John. Diary. London, Bickers, 1906, I, 59-61.
[26] Françoise Gourier suggests that "Saint-Amant [la] connaissait déjà en tant que fille de son ami le maréchal de Schomberg," but this is uncertain (Etude des Oeuvres Poétiques de Saint-Amant, Paris, Minard,1961, p.24.
[27] La Fontaine, Jean de. Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon in Oeuvres diverses de La Fontaine, éd. P. Clarac, Paris, Gallimard (Pléiade), 1958, p. 149.
[28] Lagny has collected these details, in his monumental biography Le Poète Saint-Amant (1594-1661), Paris, Nizet, 1964, pp.158-60 ; 252-53; Stfm II, 1-2.
[29] I must thank a number of people who have contributed to this research, in Paris and at the Northwestern Library, especially the Departments of Interlibrary Loan and Reference.