
Full title
Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome quatrième Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle
Language
fr
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2013-04-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1619–1690
Best known for the lively Historiettes, this sharp-eyed 17th-century French writer captured the gossip, wit, and private quirks of his contemporaries with unusual candor. His short portraits still feel vivid because they read less like formal history and more like someone who was truly paying attention.
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