Accession number:
PML 2879
Published:
[Bouillon : A. Foisy, 175-?]
Description:
22 p.
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Caption-title.
From internal evidence, this appears to be a satire upon funeral elogies delivered upon the death of Claude Louis Hector, duc de Villars, marshal of France (1653-1734). The word colas is a colloquial epithet meaning stupid. See Biographie universelle, v. XXIII, cols. 167-176, bibl. at end, and Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue francaise.
Not in Brunet.
Provenance:
With arms of Charles X, King of France, when Comte d'Artois, and Colonel General of the Swiss & Grisons guards.
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