Mennechet - The French Plutarch, Lives Of Illustrious Men And Women Of France. 1835.

COLLECTIVE, PUBLISHED BY MENNECHET - The French Plutarch, lives of the illustrious men and women of France, with their full-length portraits. Paris, From the Crapelet printing press, 1835; in-4, around 2200 pp., bottle green half-morocco bindings, spine with 5 bands adorned with boxes, marbled edges. The 8 volumes. Original edition. Engraved and colored biography and full-length portraits of: Clovis, Grégoire de Tours, Brunehaud, Charles Martel, Charlemagne, Éginhard, Robert Le-Fort, Rollon, Hugues Capet, Gerbert-Le-Philosophe, Roberd Guiscard, Guillaume Le Batard (known as the Conqueror), Godfrey of Bouillon, Abelard, Suger, Saint Bernard, Héloïse, Ville-Hardouin, Simon de Monfort, Philippe-Auguste, Blanche of Castile, Thibaut of Champagne, Saint-Louis, Charles of Anjou, Joinville, Jacques de Molai , Gaucher de Castillon, Jeanne de Flandre, Du Gesclin, Olivier de Clisson, Charles V, Jean Froissart, Juvénal des Ursins, Christine de Pisan, Jean II, Alain Chartier, Charles d'Orléans, Artur III, Jacques Coeur, Dunois, René d'Anjou, Agnès Sorel, Joan of Arc, Louis XI, Marguerite d'Anjou, Philippe de Comines, Jeanne Fourquet, Cardinal d'Amboise, Anne de Beaujeu, Louis XII, Villiers de l'Ile-Adam, Guillaume Budé , Charles VIII, Anne of Brittany, Bayard, François Rabelais, Marguerite de Valois, Cardinal du Bellay, Anne de M ontsmorenci, François I, Clément Marot, Robert Estienne, Cossé-Brissac, Michel de Lhospital, Ambroise Paré, Philibert Delorme, Jean Goujon, Jacques Amyot, Gaspard de Coligny, François de Guise, Catherine de Médicis, Ronsard, Brantôme, Louis I of Bourbon, Etienne Jodelle, Montaigne, Crillon, Marie Stuart, Lesdiguières, Jean Le Clerc, Philippe de Mornay, The Duke of Guise, Jacques de Thou, Henri IV, Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Sully, Saint Vincent de Paul, Bassompierre, Mathieu Molé, Richelieu, Callot, Guez de Balzac, Poussin, Descartes, Claude Gelée, Anne of Austria, Mazarin, Corneille, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Duquesne, Turenne, Perrault, La Rochefoucauld, Gondi Cardinal de Retz, Eustache le Sueur, Colbert, Le Brun , Molière, Condé, La Fontaine, Puget, Blaise Pascal, Abbé de Rancé, Madame de Sévigné, Bossuet, Luxembourg, Vauban, Lulli, Madame de Lafayette, Madame Deshouilières, Madame de Maintenon, Boileau, Catinat, Louis XIV, La Heathers, Racine, Tourville, Chardin, Madame de la Vall iere, Pierre Bayle, Jean Bart, Fénelon, Madame Dacier, Villars, Vendôme, Regnard, Fontenelle, Rollin, Massillon, Le Sage, D'Aguesseau, Rousseau, Berwick, Duguay-Trouin, Philippe d'Orléans, Montesquieu, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Voltaire, Chevert, Maurice of Saxony, Madame Geoffrin, Jussieu, Buffon, Gresset, Rousseau, Vernet, Malherbe, Mademoiselle Clairon, Suffren, Lekain, Bougainville, Beaumarchais, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Delille, Grétry, Lavoisier, Guibert, David, Mirabeau, Laplace, Louis XVI, Talleyrand, Kleber, Masséna, André Chénier, Talma, Moreau, Méhul, Madame de Staël-Holstein, Desaix, Napoleon, Bonaparte, Napoleon Emperor, Napoleon at Saint Helena, Cuvier, Suchet, Gros, Murat , La Rochejaquelein, Madame Cottin, Dupuytren, Beauharnais. Beautiful work complete with his color engravings. Very rare.